Evolution, No. 13, Group VI
1908 · oil on canvas
Dimensions (129.5 x 99 cm)
Collection: Art Whisperer
The Evolution works, from 1908, feature symbolic and figurative imagery drawn from Christian iconography and Theosophical themes. Formally speaking, they're also characterized by fewer freely moving lines. Hilma af Klint produced these canvases continuously, and each took three days to complete. Collectively, these works consider theories of Evolution, which remained a contested concept when the artist made them, nearly fifty years after the 1859 publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species.
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About this artwork
Evolution, No. 13, Group VI (1908) by Hilma af Klint, oil on canvas, from the Art Whisperer collection.
About Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint (October 26, 1862 – October 21, 1944) was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings were among the first Western abstract art. A considerable body of her abstract work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky.
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