Hilma af Klint — The Ten Largest — Number 5 Adulthood

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Hilma af Klint

Hilma af Klint — The Ten Largest — Number 5 Adulthood

Details

Origin
Sweden
Holding institution
The Hilma af Klint Foundation
Image provider
wikimedia-commons
License
Public domain
Credit
The Hilma af Klint Foundation

Art Genome Taxonomy

12 tags

Subject Matter

  • Line, Form, and Color Visual · 98%

    Lines, contours, numerals, and colored shapes are central to the work’s visual organization, with strong contrasts among yellow, green, red, white, black, blue, orange, and lavender.

  • Text Visual · 98%

    Roman numerals I, II, and III and several clearly visible cursive or handwritten-looking marks appear within the composition.

  • Symbolic Composition Interpretive · 78%

    The numbered sections, emblem-like forms, and systematic arrangement support an interpretation of the composition as symbolically organized, without establishing a specific meaning for each motif.

Styles and Movements

  • Abstract Art Visual · 99%

    The image is non-representational overall, relying on organic shapes, lines, circles, and color relationships rather than a naturalistic scene.

Visual Qualities

  • Biomorphic Visual · 98%

    The composition uses rounded, leaf-like, seed-like, lobed, cellular, and spiral forms rather than strictly geometric shapes.

  • Patterns Visual · 94%

    Repeated circles, spirals, dots, looping lines, and recurring organic motifs are distributed across the lavender field.

Medium and Techniques

  • Painting Metadata · 99%

    The catalog identifies the work as a painting made in tempera on paper mounted on canvas.

  • Tempera Metadata · 99%

    The catalog explicitly identifies tempera as the painting medium.

  • Work on Paper Metadata · 99%

    The catalog identifies paper as the painted support, mounted on canvas.

Time Periods

  • 1900 - 1917 Art Metadata · 99%

    The catalog dates the work to 1907, placing it within the 1900–1917 period.

Geographic Regions

  • Scandinavian Art Metadata · 97%

    The artist is identified as Swedish and the place of origin as Sweden, supporting the catalog’s Scandinavian regional classification.

Materials

  • Use of Paper Metadata · 99%

    The supplied catalog identifies paper as a primary support material.

Source & rights

Gsimonov. Own work