Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life - Softcover

Morris, Frances

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849768455 ISBN 13: 9781849768450

Verlag: Tate Publishing, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Although they never met, Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian shared a deep dynamic connection to the natural world and began their careers as landscape painters. For them, science and mysticism were not exclusive practices, but part of the same essential framework for understanding the life forces around them.

Both artists engaged with science and esoteric thought as tools for exploring the underlying structures of nature and how they give meaning to art and life. Natural forms are abstracted to their atomic levels; cells evolve, dividing and expanding the canvas in colour; sinuous stems spiral into the ether whilst the crystalline formations of grids stretch out to form an infinite universe.

Including works never before seen in the UK, this publication will elucidate and invigorate our understanding of two ground-breaking artists and will be sure to get synapses firing.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Nabila Abdel Nabi is Senior Curator, International Art at Tate Modern.

Laura Stamps is curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Kunstmuseum Den Haag.

Briony Fer is Professor of History of Art at University College London and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Brandon Taylor is Professor Emeritus of History of Art, University of Southampton, and currently Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary and Modern Art at Solent University, Southampton, and Visiting Tutor in History and Theory of Art at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.

Simon Grant is a writer, editor and art historian. He is currently editor of Pickups Magazine and was previously editor of Tate Etc. Magazine.

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Although they never met, Hilma af Klint and Piet Mondrian shared a deep dynamic connection to the natural world and a fascination with spiritualist beliefs. For them, science and mysticism were not exclusive practices, but part of the same essential framework for understanding the life forces around them. Both artists used them as tools for exploring the numinous transcendental power of nature and how it gives meaning to art and life.

For the first time, the complex, symbiotic ecologies that sustained the practices of two of the twentieth-century's greatest painters are revealed. With a shared rootedness in the natural world and its wonderous life forms, the work of af Klint and Mondrian celebrates the numinous spiritual power of nature and how this gives both art and life meaning.

Including works never before seen in the UK, this publication will elucidate and invigorate our understanding of two ground-breaking artists and will be sure to get synapses firing.

BIOGRAPHY
Nabila Abdel Nabi is Curator, International Art at Tate Modern.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Tate Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1849768455
• ISBN 13: 9781849768450
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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