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Its only a hundred years late.
The exhibition makes an airtight case for Klints being the first modernist artist to paint entirely abstract.
On display: over 160 of some of the most beguilingly uncanny and imaginative works of the last century.
Klint created her own optical language with visual, chromatic, structural, and narrative syntax.
Her artistic ship sails some of the deepest waters around.
She was in the middle of everything going on in that art world.
Her paintings illustrate the groups complex spiritual concepts.
In fact, Klint made her totally abstract paintings before any of these others.
By 1908, shed completed over 100 paintings in her celestial commission.
(Thats about as many paintings as Mondrian or Barnett Newman made in his lifetime.)
She was on fire; history was changing in her hands.
Excited to share her efforts, Klint invited the famous theosophist Rudolf Steiner to examine her work.
Steiners stinker of a comment threw Klint off; she stopped painting for four years.
Luckily for us, she started again and never stopped.
Klint died in 1944 at 81, her letter to the world complete.
Rather like the Guggenheim!
Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Futureopens at the Guggenheim on October 12.
