“The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still I worked quickly and surely without changing a single brush-stroke.” - Hilma af Klint
Rewriting the History of Abstract Art
It was first thought the pioneers of modern abstract art were Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian, but Swedish artist Hilma af Klint had began making her bold, colourful abstract works nearly a decade before in 1906.