From the Archive: Do you know how much of Hilma af Klint's work was inspired by plants? The artist initially 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. But 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.” . . . . Video by Isa Segalovich (interstellar_isabellar) #HilmaAfKlint #NatureStudies #ArtHistory #Painting #Plants