Beyond The Visible: Hilma af Klint

Name: Beyond The Visible: Hilma af Klint
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Released: April 17, 2020
Duration: 94 min
Rating: 78
Cast: Josiah McElheny, Julia Voss

2020

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Kino Lorber | Release Date (Streaming): April 17, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Josiah McElheny, Julia Voss

Summary: Hilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange works without precedent in painting. The subject of a recent smash retrospectiveHilma af Klint was an abstract artist before the term existed, a visionary, trailblazing figure who, inspired by spiritualism, modern science, and the riches of the natural world around her, began in 1906 to reel out a series of huge, colorful, sensual, strange works without precedent in painting. The subject of a recent smash retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, af Klint was for years an all-but-forgotten figure in art historical discourse, before her long-delayed rediscovery. Director Halina Dryschka’s dazzling, course correcting documentary describes not only the life and craft of af Klint, but also the process of her mischaracterization and erasure by both a patriarchal narrative of artistic progress and capitalistic determination of artistic value. [Kino Lorber]… Expand

Director: Halina Dyrschka

Genre(s): Biography, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 94 min

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Sheri Linden

Apr 20, 2020

It's an eloquent contribution to af Klint's rediscovery, which began four decades after her 1944 death. It's also a cogent argument for why that rediscovery impels nothing less than a rewriting of art history. Read full review

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RogerEbert.com Matt Fagerholm

Apr 17, 2020

One of the best films I’ve seen about fine art. It casts an entrancing spell that allows the staggering depth of its subject’s work to consume us, while showing how her trailblazing vision left an unmistakable imprint in over a century of iconic art spanning various mediums, resounding through history like a drop of colored paint in a pitcher of water. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Beyond the Visible bristles with the excitement of discovery and also with the impatience that recognition has taken so long. It refreshes the eyes and the mind. Read full review

Christopher Knight

Apr 16, 2020

It’s more than worth a look — not only for its careful illumination of the artist’s biography, plus an abundant representation of her luminous paintings, but for the way in which it exposes the obstacles af Klint and her legacy faced. Read full review

Lorry Kikta

Apr 16, 2020

If you are a lover of art, especially abstract art, you must see Beyond The Visible – Hilma af Klint. You’ll be blown away by af Klint’s genius and how ahead of her time she really was. Read full review

The Guardian Cath Clarke

Oct 8, 2020

This documentary makes a pretty convincing case for the admission of the Swedish artist Hilma af Klint into the boys’ club of abstract art, alongside Kandinsky, Mondrian et al. Read full review

Kimberley Jones

Apr 30, 2020

Although the filmmaker’s presence in her own film is never remarked upon, I imagine she felt compelled by a feeling of kinship with the artist; Dyrschka, a first-time feature director, is the first filmmaker to profile af Klint, which is a notable achievement. But I don’t think we’ve had the definitive film portrait yet. Read full review

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