Taught online via Zoom
Sundays, July 23, 30, and August 6
3 – 5 pm ET
Admission: $100 Patreon Members / $125 General Admission

PLEASE NOTE: All classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot attend live

Hilma af Klint’s artwork has taken the world by storm. We know af Klint was deeply influenced by anthroposophical philosophy although her relationship with the Anthroposophical Society was disappointing. What is anthroposophy, later renamed “spiritual science”? And how do af Klint’s works over the course of her life fit in with the motifs and visual language of anthroposophical art? What can the marked evolution in her techniques in The Paintings for the Temple (1906 - 1915) versus the Late Watercolors (1922 - 1941) teach us about her attempts to incorporate anthroposophical ideals into her works? And can anthroposophical principles provide clues to the meaning of her works, particular those of the latter half of her life?

In this three week course led by Kayla Bowen Marginean, founder and editor-in-chief of COLLECTIVE Dream Arts Magazine, students will become more familiar with the functions and visual language of anthroposophical art, explore af Klint’s paintings from the context of anthroposophy, and will have the opportunity to create a piece of art of their own based on what they learned. 

Week 1 - Overview of history, functions and visual language of anthroposophical art

Week 2 - Contextualization and comparison of af Klint's Paintings for the Temple and Later Watercolors

Week 3 - Guided workshop

Selected texts: 

• Hilma af Klint: A Biography, Julia Voss

• Hilma af Klint: The Paintings for the Temple 1906–1915: Catalogue Raisonné Volume II

• The Art of Colour and the Human Form: Seven Motif Sketches of Rudolf Steiner, Studies by Gerard Wagner, ed. Peter Stebbing

• Hilma af Klint: Late Watercolours 1922–1941: Catalogue Raisonné Volume VI

• Colour Dynamics: Workbook for Watercolour Painting and Colour theory, Angela Lord

• Art and Theory of Art: Foundations of a New Aesthetics, Rudolf Steiner

• Art as Spiritual Activity: Rudolf Steiner’s Contribution to the Visual Arts, Rudolf Steiner and Michael Howard

• Colour, Rudolf Steiner

• Thought Forms, Annie Besant and CW Leadbeater

Kayla Bowen Marginean is the founder and editor-in-chief of COLLECTIVE Dream Arts Magazine. A primarily self-taught student of the dream for over a decade, she has both participated in and facilitated Jungian dream groups and creative workshops. Kayla lives in Nashville with her husband, daughter, cats and chickens and works in biomedical research operations. You can follow her experiments in visual art on Instagram @kayla.marginean_art. Or follow her on Substack at The Ocularium where she ponders dreams and Jungian dreamwork; alternative ways of knowing; consciousness; mediumistic, visionary and esoteric art; and sacred and projective geometry.

IMAGES:  

1. Hilma Af Klint, The Swan, No. 12, Group IX/SUW , 1915

2. Hilma af Klint, Wheat and Wormwood