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Hilma af Klint - The two sides to one artist

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George Bothamley
Aug 07, 2023
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Relatively unknown in her lifetime - Swedish artist Hilma af Klint is now recognised as one of Western art’s first pioneers of abstract painting; with a great deal of her work predating the other “fathers of abstraction” like Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky. (Note: There is no record of either men actually knowing about Hilma’s work, or visa versa …

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