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Primordial Chaos
1906-1907
Small paintings test symbols, colour and non-representational form with startling confidence.
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.