Hilma af Klint, Swedish, 1862-1944 The Large Figure Paintings, The WU/Rose Series, Group IlI No. 5, The Key to All Work to Date 1907 Oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. During a séance, af Klint heard a voice telling her to paint "on an astral plane" so as to *proclaim a new philosophy of life." Guided, she believed, by a "higher power," she began to paint abstractions in 1906, very early in modern art history.

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