The Figurativeness of the Language of Mystical Experience. Particularities and Interpretations

Kapitola

Tracing the absent. Hilma af Klint’s mystical language

Mónica Sánchez Tierraseca
Rok vydání: 2021

https://doi.org/10.5817/CZ.MUNI.P210-9997-2021-22
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Abstrakt

The main aim of this paper is to study the mysticism of the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) in relation to her religious experience and her searching for existential answers through contact with divine entities. Although the identity of these figures is not clear, we are aware of their familiarity with Christian beliefs. Thus, in this paper we attempt to approach Af Klint’s Christian, metaphysical and anthroposophical message by analysing her notebooks. Particularly, we focus on the symbolic aspect of one of them made between 1919 and 1920, entitled Flowers, Mosses, and Lichens.

Klíčová slova

Abstract art. Antroposophy. Contemporary art. Hilma af Klint. Mysticism. Symbolism.

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