1. The Modernist Vs. the Mystics.
- Author
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Johnson, Ken
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ART exhibitions , *ABSTRACT art , *WOMEN artists , *MODERN art , *WOMEN painters , *VISIONARIES , *SPIRITUALISM , *PSYCHOLOGY & art , *SPIRITUALISTS , *ABSTRACT thought , *SPIRITUALITY , *SPIRITUAL life , *PAINTERS , *ART museums - Abstract
Reviews the new exhibition "3 x Abstraction: New Methods of Drawing," at the Drawing Center, New York City. Focus on the relationship between abstraction and spirituality in modern art; Overview of artists Swedish Hilma af Klint, Swiss Emma Kunz, both spiritualists, and American Modernist painter Agnes Martin; Affinities between the works of af Klint and Kunz; Backgrounds on the women artists and their philosophies; Suggestion that what has preserved the credibility of visionary spiritualism for many today is psychology; Highlights of the exhibition.
- Published
- 2005