In 2018, a show at the Guggenheim Museum made Hilma af Klint an art world sensation. The artist, who lived from 1862 to 1944, became a cult figure for her radiant non-figurative paintings created in the service of her spiritualism and for the revelation that a woman was pioneering abstract art before the canonical (male) modernists. What is still less known is how much of her work was inspired by plants. Before she began her celebrated spiritualist paintings in 1906, af Klint studied botanical drawings in school and then worked as an illustrator. Acquired by MoMA in 2022, her “Nature Studies,” a portfolio of 46 botanical drawings dating from 1919 to 1920, are as exacting as they are ethereal. Indeed, the artist wrote that she was interested in the relationship “between the plant world and the world of the soul.” Read more in the article by Natalie Haddad through the link in bio. . . . #HilmaAfKlint #NatureStudies #ArtHistory #Painting #Plants