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This Round: Hilma af Klint 1862 - 1944

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Hilma af Klint was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings were the first Western abstract art known to the current art community. A considerable body of her abstract work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky. She belonged to a group called "The Five", a circle of women inspired by Theosophy who shared a belief in the importance of trying to contact the so-called "High Masters"—often by way of séances. Her paintings, which sometimes resemble diagrams, were a visual representation of complex spiritual ideas.

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She was enrolled in Konstfack, a technical school where she studied classical portraiture under Kerstin Cardon, who was one of the first 18 female artists to study at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. When Af Klint was 20, she too enrolled in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. This was one of the most prestigious art schools in Sweden at the time and one of the few in Europe that admitted female students.

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Choose your favourite Hilma af Klint painting

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1) Childhood Group IV (1907)

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2) The Large Figure Paintings, No. 5 Group 3 (1907)

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3) Group IV, No. 7, The Ten Largest, Adulthood (1907)

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4) Tree of Knowledge, No. 1 (1913-1915)

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5) The Swan, No. 18 (1914 -1915)

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6) Altarpiece, No. 1 (1915)

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7) Group IX SUW, Swan no. 7 (1915)

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8) Group IX,UW No. 25, The Dove, No. 1 (1915)

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THE NEXT GENERATION

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- Optional second middle name initial is the letter “H”

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Links are optional

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1) Child four, a son
- His first name contains the letter “V”, but doesn’t start with it
- His middle name is in the top 20, Germany, 1908 (https://www.behindthename.com/top/lists/germany/1908)

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2) Child six, a daughter
- Her first name contains the letters “EA”
- Her middle name ends in the letters “IS” (https://www.behindthename.com/names/gender/feminine/pattern/*is)

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3) Child two, a son
- His first name is after a poet (https://www.behindthename.com/names/gender/masculine/tag/poets)
- His middle name is the name of a pope (https://www.behindthename.com/names/gender/masculine/tag/popes)

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4) Child five, a son
- His first name contains the letters “CL” or “KL”
- His middle name ends in the letter “G” or letters “GE”

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5) A child of your choice, a son
- His first name is the first or last name of a decathlon Olympic medalist (https://www.behindthename.com/namesakes/category/olympics/gender/m/keyword/decathlon/alpha) - feel free to change a nickname into a longer name
- His middle name ends in the letter “R”

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6) Child three, a daughter
- Her first name is from an Italian Western (https://www.behindthename.com/names/gender/feminine/tag/italian_westerns)
- Her middle name is has a war related meaning (https://www.behindthename.com/names/gender/feminine/tag/war)

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7) A child of your choice, a daughter
- Her first name is after her grandmother
- Her middle name is related to love (https://www.behindthename.com/names/gender/feminine/tag/love)

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8) Child one, a daughter
- Her first name is Swedish diminutive (https://www.behindthename.com/names/gender/feminine/usage/swedish/tag/diminutives)
- Her middle name is from a legend (https://www.behindthename.com/names/gender/feminine/tag/legend)

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formerly Belphoebe

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I am in the mood
to dissolve
in the sky.
- Virginia Woolf

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This message was edited 12/23/2024, 1:58 PM