# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BqhwJrZAptr
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16045365-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2018-11-23T15:10:29.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

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Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction
Hilma af Klint (1862 - 1944) was a Swedish artist that pioneered abstraction with her geometric paintings and works on paper that are symbolic pursuits of rendering the invisible visible. Seeking to represent essential knowledge of the universe using concepts like theosophy and rosicrucianism, af Klint created abstract images that employ symbols and colors to construct a meaningful visual vocabulary. Although one of the first abstract artists, unlike icons Piet Mondrian and Vasily Kandinsky, Hilma af Klint has not been recognized as a key figure in untying representation from art. Af Klint’s paintings, notebooks, and works on paper, have remained in privacy up until the early 2000s. “3x Abstraction,” an exhibition at The Drawing Center in 2005, featured her work alongside Agnes Martin and Emma Kunz, whose artistic approaches similarly sought to visualize philosophical ideas. With the turn of the century, society was being transformed with fundamental shifts in culture, science, and politics, and af Klint, along with other artists, used abstract symbolism to express these monumental changes. Visually transfixing, af Klint’s mystifying use of color and shape is an astounding search into the unknown parts of the universe. “You have mystery service ahead,” she once said, “...and will soon enough realize what is expected of you.” “Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future” is on view at the Guggenheim through April 23. 
#HilmaafKlint #guggenheim guggenheim 
Image: Courtesy of Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk, 1885.

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