Art Review: Hilma af Klint's What Stands Behind the Flowers

Art Review: Hilma af Klint's What Stands Behind the Flowers

Over the past dozen years "Hilma af Klint has become a cultural force," said Jay Cheshes in Smithsonian. "Touted as an early feminist, a queer icon, a prophet, a witch—whatever your worldview wishes," the Swedish artist and spiritualist (1862–1944) is foremost known as the forgotten woman who invented modernist abstract painting before the men who were long credited with the innovation. An exhibition of her towering, brilliantly colored painting…

Hilma af Klint: Pioneer of Abstract Art

Swedish painter Hilma af Klint was likely creating abstract art even earlier than the male artists who are credited with inventing it.

Art Review: Hilma af Klint’s What Stands Behind the Flowers

Over the past dozen years “Hilma af Klint has become a cultural force,” said Jay Cheshes in Smithsonian. “Touted as an early feminist, a queer icon, a prophet, a witch—whatever your worldview wishes,” the Swedish artist and spiritualist (1862–1944) is foremost known as the forgotten woman who invented modernist abstract painting before the men who were long credited with the innovation. An exhibition of her towering, brilliantly colored painting…