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Hilma af Klint-Simple is Beautiful: A Sketchbook Exploration taught by Tara Tieso
August 4, 2023 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
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Hilma af Klint – Simple Is Beautiful – A Sketchbook Exploration
Using the book Hilma af Klint: Notes and Methods as a resource, we will explore the arc of af Klint’s artistic investigation, in her own words.
And we’ll use our own sketchbooks to see how simple images, shapes, diagrams and color can help us open up our creative practice and artistic process in fresh and unanticipated ways.
A companion book participants may want to explore is the fantastically drawn graphic novel by Philipp Deines, Five Lives of Hilma af Klint which beautifully presents the thoroughly modern life and work of this amazing artist.
No art experience or drawing skills required – Join Us!
Hilma af Klint was a 19th/20th Swedish artist who studied at the Royal Swedish Academy in Stockholm, where she was part of the first generation of female students. Up until the beginning of the 20th century, she mainly painted (as was common at the time) landscapes and detailed botanical studies.
But af Klint had the spirit of an adventurer, the open mind of a seeker, and the curiosity of a passionate creator. She traveled the world and began keeping detailed notebooks of ideas, and sketchbooks filled with groundbreaking simple, colorful, geometric and organic abstract drawings.
Later, she translated these into paintings which she considered to future focused to be presented to the art patrons of the early 1900s. She kept them and directed that 20 years following her death, they be shown in a modern setting where they might be best appreciated.
Now considered among the first abstract works known in Western art history – a considerable body of her work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian. The first posthumous retrospective of of her work in took place in the very modern setting of the Guggenheim, and broke all exhibition attendance records.
Materials:
Non-Spiral bound sketchbook
Waterproof drawing pen
Color media of your choice – colored pencils, watercolor (pencils or paint), markers, crayons, etc,
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About the artist:
Tara L Tieso is an abstract artist who lives and paints in the historic arts Lowertown neighborhood of Saint Paul, on the mighty Mississippi. She works in encaustic, an ancient beeswax and resin medium fused to its substrate with a torch. Tara also works in pen and ink, and loves water soluble colors of any type.
Tara is Past Board President of nationally celebrated WARM, Women’s Art Resources Minnesota – where she worked with other women in the arts to steward the rich 40-year feminist legacy of Minnesota’s brilliant women artists. She currently serves on the Board of The Show Non-Profit, which brings artists of all abilities together in creative community.
As teaching artist, Tara facilitates Eagan Artist Connect, Wet Paint’s Book Club, and Creative Circles from her loft studio.
A grateful recipient of the McKnight Foundation-funded Metropolitan Regional Arts Council’s Next Step Grant, and a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant; she is one of 30 ArtSage Minnesota Artists, and a winner of North Hennepin Community College Award of Excellence in Memory of Lance Kiland from the Minnesota State Fair Foundation. Her work hangs in private collections in the Twin Cities, greater Minnesota, and Philadelphia.
