HILMA AF KLINT/ PAINTING THE UNSEEN

Working before Kandinsky and Malevich, Hilma af Klint was arguably the first abstract painter.Hilma af Klint graduated from the Roya l Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm in 1887, established a studio in the city, and began creating and exhibiting traditional landsca pes, botanical drawings and portraits. Privately, however, af Klint was already beginning to discard what she had learned at the Aca demy in favor of painting the invisible worlds hidden within nature, the spiritual realm and the occult.Swedish painter Hilma af Kli nt (1862...[Read more]