The first series of paintings that caught my eye is “The Paintings for the Temple”. I admired how the colors in the paintings complimented each other. I also liked how she used shapes to create different types of flowers. In the article, “Who Was Hilma af Klint?: At the Guggenheim, Paintings by an Artist Ahead of Her Time” , it states “It seems the world is finally ready for Hilma af Klint, and the underlying message of empowerment her story conveys. During that period, women’s subject matter was circumscribed by the mundane, the domestic worlds of animals and flowers, to which they were forcibly confined.” Although she was restricted from going out of the box of flowers and animals, she still found a way to make her artwork stand out. In the description of the piece, it says the meaning behind her artwork was to symbolize her relationship with religion. While making the painting she envisioned the human life cycle through an abstract form.Another art piece that caught my eye is Vasily Kanadinsky “Several Circles”. He compliments Hilma af Klint's ideas on spiritually by focusing on the idea of the universe and how it affects human beings. In his painting, it includes an abstract picture of what the universe looks like. It also reflects on this idea of how the world came today. “As we get close to the unimaginable explosion that began this universe’s creation, our time machine is exposed to extreme danger... But since our time machine is imaginary to begin with, we can imagine it coasting through superheated space without melting or flying apart into subatomic particles” (You are the Universe). In the painting, there was a lot of symbolism. There are various amounts of colored circles which resembles plants. In the center, there is a black circle blocking the sun. His purpose for the painting is to show how art can change how you view yourself and the state of the environment we live in.
The last painting, I found interesting was two art pieces from the "The Ten Largest” collection by Hilma af Klint. When I first spotted the pyramid shape in the paintings, it reminded me of Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs. I viewed the circle shape figures as planets that resemble the universe. The article ““Who Was Hilma af Klint?: At the Guggenheim, Paintings by an Artist Ahead of Her Time” describes the meaning as Hilma af Klint resembling human life and its connection to spirituality. “Curator and critic Helen Molesworth has said of af Klint’s work, “It seems like she is making pictures of how things are interrelated. She is trying to make a picture that draws on disparate fields of knowledge in a synthetic manner. She is producing a picture that is both image and diagram. . . . In essence, she’s offering a Gaia-like theory of radical holistic interconnectivity.” I think the first picture where the pyramid is filled with colors is a visual representation of what it looks like to be connected with the universe. On the other hand , the second picture where the pyramid is mostly black is a representation of what it looks like to be disconnected with the universe.In conclusion, If I were to connect her theories and artistic technique to my self-portrait presentation I would use vibrant colors and symbols to display who I am as a person. The symbols would include things related to my religion, hobbies, astrology sign and things I admire.
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