Senior Blog 2- 1/23/26
I just finished putting together a PowerPoint presentation for my abstraction class about Hilma af Klint. I am going to shamelessly follow the blueprint for her work because I really feel where she’s coming from on a couple of these things.
1 – Her Methodology/Thought Process on abstraction was based on her past lived experiences. Her interest in botany and experience in taxonomical writing had such a massive bearing on her work, both in practical expression and the meaning behind the work. A lot of symbols she used were based on nature and were used to explain human experiences (spirals for growth, visuals like male and female anatomy, etc.). How she abstracted ideas came back to the natural world, and how those ideas present themselves in nature. I really need to brush up on my art analysis chops because I’m struggling to put it into words, but you can see the influence of her past work experience in her abstract work.
2 – Constant Analyzation and thinking about her work. This is the thing I want to imitate in her work. Through her notebooks, you can read about how much she thought about her work, not simply just through a description, but how her work fit together, analysis of the themes, and how they extended across paintings, diving into the why, how, and what her work was communicating. She was a self-scholar of herself and her own work, constantly working to analyze her work. This nonstop attention to her work is what has made analyzing her work afterward and presenting her work toa modern audience so captivating. Everything she did was considered, measured an analyzed. She had detailed descriptions of the colors and symbols used in her work and consideration for how her work should be presented and viewed. All her writing helps the viewer hundreds of years later to understand why and what she was doing. It’s an invaluable asset into analysis of her art. Now I ain’t saying my work will be on the level of analysis her work gets, but having consistent and honest self-description and analysis of the art I create can only serve me in becoming a better artist.
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