Hilma af Klint painted for spirits — and century later, the world is finally looking

Hilma af Klint painted for spirits — and century later, the world is finally looking

BUSAN — The origin of modern abstraction has long rested on a handful of towering names: Kandinsky, Mondrian, Malevich. Men whose legacies are etched into museum walls and art history textbooks, whose breakthroughs are hailed as the beginning of it all. But some revolutions bloom in silence. And they wait for history to catch up — even if it takes a century. Several years before Kandinsky painted what he would call “the world’s first-ever abstra…