Abstraction: Hilma Af Klint

Hilma Af Klint was a pioneer in the art world, born in Sweden, studied painting in one of the few academies where women were accepted, the Stockholm Academy of Arts. Klint was always a very spiritual woman, and since spiritualism was fashionable at the time that led her to experience even under hypnosis the way to portray those sensations in a pictorial work, always with caution since they could accuse her of being a witch, However, she managed to become independent with the painting, bringing sustenance to her table.
Hilma is considered the first woman, I rectify, the first person to perform abstract art, long before Kandinsky proposed the experience of color and form as the only way of expression, the big difference was that being a woman would not be taken seriously, so she decided to make those paintings in the shelter of the walls of her studio.

They stayed there because of the mentality that they were going to be undervalued and misunderstood works, in fact, when she died she told her relatives who exhibited their works twenty years later, and, of course, they did not take it seriously, leaving their paintings stored in an attic. Today, more than 1000 paintings are known created since 1906, but, in the same way it has not been given the boom she deserved.