Hilma af Klint, an Abstract Painter (ep. 10.11)

Her Half of History · Jun 29, 2023 · 21m

In the early years of the 20th century, an obscure woman in Sweden invented abstract art to reflect her spiritualist views in which the physical world we know was only the lowest plane of existence. Despite her mixed efforts, few people knew about her art for decades until it was rediscovered in the 1980s to high critical acclaim.

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