Soft lavender, pink, orange and blue meet playful circles, spirals and ribbons in Hilma af Klint’s The Ten Largest, Childhood, No. 2 recycled tote bag. Created in 1907, this monumental work explores childhood as a time of growth and transformation. Hilma created all ten works in The Ten Largest in just 40 days, painting the enormous compositions on paper rather than canvas. The Ten Largest were created as a series exploring the four stages of human life: childhood, youth, adulthood and old age. Group IV, No. 2 The Ten Largest, Childhood, 1907.
Hilma af Klint created her first abstract works in Stockholm in 1906, years before Kandinsky, Mondrian, Delaunay and Malevich explored abstraction.
Soft lavender, pink, orange and blue meet playful circles, spirals and ribbons in Hilma af Klint’s The Ten Largest, Childhood, No. 2 recycled tote bag. Created in 1907, this monumental work explores childhood as a time of growth and transformation. Hilma created all ten works in The Ten Largest in just 40 days, painting the enormous compositions on paper rather than canvas. The Ten Largest were created as a series exploring the four stages of human life: childhood, youth, adulthood and old age. Group IV, No. 2 The Ten Largest, Childhood, 1907.
Hilma af Klint created her first abstract works in Stockholm in 1906, years before Kandinsky, Mondrian, Delaunay and Malevich explored abstraction.