The First Abstract Artist: Biography of Georgiana Houghton: Discover the Woman who Brought Messages from the Spirit World to Life Through Trance art

di Joel R. Elorm (Autore)

Wisdom J. Sege, 2025

In an age dominated by rigid reason and Victorian restraint, she dared to speak to spirits. She dared to paint them, too. Georgiana Houghton was not simply an artist. She was a medium, a mystic, and—unbeknownst to the art world for over a century—a revolutionary. Before Kandinsky, before Mondrian, before abstraction had a name, she stood alone with her pencil, her watercolors, and a message that did not come from the earthly realm. Born in 1814 in the Canary Islands and raised in London, Houghton was a woman of profound paradox: deeply Christian, yet radically spiritualist. Polite and soft-spoken in society, yet bold and avant-garde in her creative life. Her works, some bursting with celestial color and others stitched with coded symbolism, were guided by what she called "the direction of spirit." To her contemporaries, she was eccentric at best, mad at worst. Her self-funded 1871 exhibition in London—the first public display of purely abstract art—was dismissed, ridiculed, and promptly forgotten. Houghton died in relative obscurity in 1884. Her grave remained unmarked for nearly 140 years. But as the wheel of time turned, the world changed. And suddenly, Georgiana Houghton reemerged—an artist decades ahead of her time. Her work was rediscovered and exhibited anew, not as an oddity, but as prophecy. Critics, curators, and historians alike began to whisper what she always knew: that art could be a bridge between worlds, a map of the divine, a voice for the invisible. This biography is not just a record of her life—it is an offering. A resurrection. A torch held up to a soul who walked the narrow path between genius and faith, ridicule and revelation

• Autore: Joel R. Elorm
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Wisdom J. Sege
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798232989262