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Kandinsky and Pollock have been acclaimed as the pioneers of abstract art. Overlooking the Swedish artist who was inspired by seances with female friends.
Hilma af Klint: how a “crazy, remote woman” upstaged male art heroes
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Some paintings are worthy of pilgrimage. But for Halina Dyrschka, there are some paintings that are so extraordinary, they are journeys in themselves. In 2013, the Berlin-based filmmaker saw a series of works called
The Ten Largest, by a Swedish mystic called Hilma af Klint in a German newspaper. The images transported her so vividly, she lost the ability to describe them.
“When I saw her paintings, I thought ‘it cannot be’,” says Dyrschka, who would later visit the exhibition
Fearless painter Wendy Sharpe has a brush with ghosts
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When a gallery offers virtually its entire exhibition space for an artist to do whatever she likes, itâs both tempting and intimidating. However, nothing is too much for Wendy Sharpe. Ever since she took on the challenge of creating eight mural-sized works for the Cook and Phillip Park Aquatic Centre in 1997, Sharpe has never hesitated to accept invitations that require her to work on a large scale under extreme pressure.