Hilma af Klint was the first abstract painter

I was just at the Guggenheim exhibition. I liked some of the paintings, but I wasn't really moved by it; I was much more taken by her naturalist paintings and sketches of insects (which were in the minority). However, it was intriguing to think about how these paintings were conceived nearly in isolation, preceding the abstract art movement by almost a decade.

There's also https://dangerousminds.net/comments/meet_the_swedish_mystic_....

There are a bunch of good high res photos of some of her serious abstract works here: https://www.julochka.com/2014/05/theosophic-works-hilma-af-k...

I stumbled two weeks ago across her through following picture. https://goo.gl/images/EhsqdP

Totally flashed me

Whistlers falling rocket (nocturne in black and gold), sort of blurs the line

The surname is wrong in the title, it should be Klint, not Klimt. It's an interesting read however, although I'm no art expert by any means, I've always liked abstract paintings as they have a sort of liberating effect on my mind where the imagination in some cases can run completely it's own course.