{"title":"Janis Mink","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJanis Mink\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a captivating exploration of artists and their creative worlds, delving into the nuances of artistic expression and innovation. Readers will find insightful narratives that illuminate the lives and works of influential figures such as Hilma af Klint and Miró, blending biography with cultural context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese works invite reflection on the interplay between art and culture, providing a rich understanding of the creative forces that shape visionary artists. 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Emerging into the public spotlight in the early 1920s, he first experimented with Fauvism and Cubism before developing a \u003cstrong\u003edistinctive style of symbols and pictograms\u003c\/strong\u003e, arranged in \u003cstrong\u003eelusive visual narratives\u003c\/strong\u003e, with frequent reference to Catalan life. As his career progressed, Miró moved towards Surrealism, and, despite never fully identifying with the movement, emerged as one of its most celebrated practitioners with techniques including \u003cstrong\u003eautomated drawing, Lyrical Abstraction, and Colour Field painting\u003c\/strong\u003e. In later years, he diversified his media further, working with ceramics, textiles, and even proposing sculptures made of gas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough his \u003cstrong\u003evivid colours, dreamlike fantasies, and enigmatic symbols\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMiró\u003c\/em\u003e brings together the numerous strands of Miró's kaleidoscopic oeuvre to introduce his fascinating career, its interaction with major modernist movements, and how it made him into a modernist legend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47597056884972,"sku":"9783836529235","price":26.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783836529235-mir.jpg?v=1777946264"},{"product_id":"hilma-af-klint-by-janis-mink-9783836599030","title":"Hilma af Klint","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHilma af Klint\u003c\/i\u003e painted as though she was channeling the universe. Fascinated from childhood by botany and mathematics, she began her career painting landscapes and portraits, but other preoccupations stirred within her: questions of spirit, unseen energies, patterns too vast for the eye alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer art was inseparable from her spiritual practice. With a circle of female artists called The Five, she held séances, heard voices from \"High Masters,\" and was inspired by the Theosophical Society and Rudolf Steiner's theories. Working tirelessly to map life's hidden dimensions, she would paint to the point of physical collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy 1906, her canvases featured radiant geometries of spirals and orbs, impregnated with symbols, letters, and words, anticipating the later embrace of abstraction by Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian, and others. Her vast painted cycles—like her works for the Temple and The Ten Largest—often depicted dualities: inside and out, the earthly and the esoteric, man and woman, good and evil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLiving as a vegetarian, questioning the fixity of gender, af Klint was clearly before her time, yet very much of it too, and pretty much uncelebrated in her day. Her prodigious output lay unseen for decades, locked away by her own instruction. Only in the 1980s did the world begin to recognize her as a true pioneer of abstract art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book invites you into her visionary world, via a luminous selection of her works and a detailed essay distilling their complexity. 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