stackyFACTSThe art history books will smugly tell you Wassily Kandinsky invented abstract painting, completely ignoring a Swedish mystic who beat him to the punch.
The art history books will smugly tell you Wassily Kandinsky invented abstract painting, completely ignoring a Swedish mystic who beat him to the punch. Hilma af Klint began painting massive, vibrantly geometric canvases in 1906 because her spirit guides, 'The High Masters,' explicitly told her to. Knowing the world was too narrow-minded to get it, she stipulated her groundbreaking work remain hidden until 20 years after her death.
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