Episode notes
In this first episode of the 5th season of Wigs and Candles, Andreina and Gaby discuss the film Hilma, a biographical movie about the Swedish painter Hilma af Klint.
Gaby and Andreina talk about Klint's career as a female painter in the 19th and early 20th centuries and her unusual approach to art and spiritual painting, a genre to which she greatly contributed.
Touching on themes of what it is to live a creative life and follow your artistic calling and dreams as a woman, Gaby and Andreina open the season with a film that deeply touched their hearts.
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Period filmCostume dramaHistorical filmsfilms about womenperiod dramaHilma af KlintWomen paintersSpiritual paintingsSwedish artLasse HallströmLena OlinTora HallstromWomen podcastersFeminist podcastsArt historyWomen in artGreat women artists