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Altarpiece No. 1
1915
A luminous triangle rises through a field of colour. Abstraction is treated as a spiritual instrument.
Artist field note
Hilma Af Klint
Abstraction before the story said abstraction began.
Appears inThe Overlooked
The five in one idea
Af Klint complicates the familiar origin story of abstraction by arriving early and for entirely different reasons.