Altarpiece, No. 1, Group X
1915 Moderna Museet
About this artwork
This is the final work in the series 'The Ten Largest,' part of the monumental 'Paintings for the Temple' cycle commissioned by spiritual entities. It features a geometric ascension from a multicolored pyramid toward a radiant golden orb.
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Hilma af Klint was a pioneer of abstract art who created her most radical work years before Kandinsky, Mondrian, or Malevich. She believed she was guided by spiritual masters to create paintings that would eventually be housed in a spiral-shaped temple, a vision that predated the architecture of the Guggenheim Museum by decades.
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Altarpiece, No. 1, Group X
Hilma af Klint, 1915
