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Hilma af Klint : The Five Notebook 2
ISBN: 9789189069633
(Notebook - EN)
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This sketchbook is an exact copy of one of 'The FiveÆs' sketchbooks of which Hilma af Klint was a founding member. Each notebook contains four drawings made by the group, the rest of the pages have been left blank for your own notes, sketches and drawings.
In 1896, Hilma af Klint and four other like-minded women artists left the Edelweiss Society and founded the 'Friday Group', also known as 'The Five'. They met every Friday for spiritual meetings, including prayers, studies of the New Testament, meditation and sÚances. The medium exercised automatic writing and mediumistic drawing. Eventually they established contact with spiritual beings whom they called 'The High Ones'. In 1896, the five women began taking meticulous notes of the mediumistic messages conveyed by the spirits. In time, Hilma af Klint felt she had been selected for more important messages. After ten years of esoteric training with 'The Five', aged 43, Hilma af Klint accepted a major assignment, the execution of The Paintings for the Te
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