Future newsletters will include“Art is a form of nourishment (of consciousness, the spirit)…” Susan Sontag
Our monthly newsletters will feature some of the most interesting and important work happening right now in the field along with highlighting various artists from all disciplines - composers, painters, photographers, writers, musicians - that touch our souls. Art can inspire us, and help us to assimilate the mystery and profound nature of life. What greater mystery is there than death and its aftermath?
One artist we hold dear is Hilma Af Klint. Klint was known as The Archangel of Abstractionism. She spent nine years (1906-15) creating her monumental cycle, “The Paintings for the Temple”. Curiously her description of the sacred temple space she was designing sounds awfully like Frank Lloyd Wright’s design much later for the Guggenheim Museum. Af Klint envisioned a nearly circular, four-story building connected by a central staircase. The structure she believed, would be imbued with a “certain power and calm”. Wright also once described the Guggenheim as “a temple of the spirit”. We’ve chosen two articles that tell you more about her:
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