Art Happens: The Divine Mess of Art History

Artist Spotlight: Hilma af Klint

May 11, 2026·11 min
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Hilma af Klint may be one of the most important artists modern art history almost erased. Long before Kandinsky, Mondrian, or the official arrival of abstraction, af Klint was painting massive works filled with spirals, symbols, radiant color, cosmic diagrams, and mysterious systems that blended science, spirituality, philosophy, and the unseen world. And then she did something almost unbelievable: she packed much of the work away, convinced the future would understand it better than her own ...

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