Hilma af Klint was born in Stockholm in 1862. Af Klint started to create radically abstract paintings in 1906—years before Vasily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, and others would succeed in voiding their own artwork of representational content. Yet while many of her better-known contemporaries published position papers, statements of purpose, promoted, and exhibited widely, af… Continue reading Meet the late Hilma af Klint. The New York Times calls her work “jaw dropping, staggering.”