Waiting for the Temple
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7 min readSep 17, 2018
The Art of Hilma af Klint
By Nora Kipnis
The Ten Largest, №7., Adulthood, Group IV, 1907
Tempera on paper mounted on canvas
315 x 235 cm
Stiftelsen Hilma af Klints Verk
Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet
Until recently, the earliest modern innovators of abstraction were thought to be Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian and František Kupka. These celebrated men revolutionized art in the 1910s, communicating in a raw visual language of color and shape, unfiltered by figurative constraints. But behind this story, another has waited quietly to contest it: that of…
