Buddha´s Standpoint by Hilma Af Klint Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm balanced symmetry – but the

balanced symmetry – but the blue ground shifts the mood from garden warmth to something closer to formal textile elegance

who taught at the Berlin arts and crafts school in the early 20th century

It belongs to a tradition of images that were never quite serious and never quite jokes

Hasui Kawase depicts the Asama Shrine in Shizuoka with the calm

Layered tones of blue and green suggest still water

Buddha´s Standpoint by Hilma Af Klint Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm balanced symmetry – but theBuddha's Standpoint belongs to Hilma af Klint's remarkable cycle of visionary paintings works in which symmetry, symbolic colour, and organic form carry a weight that transcends decoration. The composition is centred and deliberate: concentric fields of colour emanate from a still core, referencing both botanical observation and metaphysical inquiry. It is one of the earliest sustained series of purely abstract paintings in Western art history,