Picture of the Starting Point by Hilma af Klint (1920) Frame:Unframed

Picture of the Starting Point by Hilma af Klint (1920) Frame:UnframedHilma af Klint (October 26, 1862 October 21, 1944) was a Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings were the first Western abstract art known to the current art community. A considerable body of her abstract work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky. She belonged to a group called "The Five", a circle of women inspired by Theosophy who shared a belief in the importance of trying to contact the so called "High Masters"often by

especially those depicting birds

the ranges dissolving into low cloud

ocean somewhere ahead

Part of the Sonder series: photographs that sit with the weight of place

New South Wales — coastal scrub

Walkerville

Germany at the School of Decorative Arts

His best-known work

vast and yellow

Clouds in black and white — duotone sky

Part of the Kenopsia series: landscapes caught in the rare moment they're entirely their own

The Shrine of Remembrance