Hidden Hands - A Different History of Modernism — Season 1, Episode 1: Is Anybody There?
Documentary • 30 min • 1 season, 4 episodes • ★ 10.0/10
Episode synopsis
The occult roots of abstract painting, especially the influence of Theosophy on Vasily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian. Kazimir Malevich and Frantisek Kupka are also mentioned at the beginning of the programme but we don’t hear anything more about them.
About Hidden Hands - A Different History of Modernism
Art movements were rife with hocus pocus during the early part of the twentieth century. Commissioning Editor Waldemar Januszczak as part of a major arts series looking at the history of Modernism.