The Ten Largest No.4 by Hilma af Klint yellow

The Ten Largest No.4 by Hilma af Klint yellowHilma 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

A cloudscape that keeps its own counsel — blue on blue

The path through the dunes at Broulee

New South Wales — coastal trees dense and green against an empty beach

the landscape open

Victoria — sky in blue and pink

and the line in between

stone and water caught in the same moment

the coast raw and close

Part of the Ambedo series

The Borneo coastline under storm light — blue-grey ocean

As a poster artist

and purple — sky caught at the exact threshold between day and something else