Connecting the two through their shared religious interests misunderstands the Dutch artist – and does Af Klint no favours
bstract art does not just mean painting freely and wildly, putting it out there with abandon. If it did, any old doodle or curtain fabric would be abstract art. But modernist abstract painting in the 20th century found meaning in the colours, logic in the lines, discipline in freedom. The greatest abstract paintings convince you they are inevitable, because they have such inner coherence. The paragon of this art is.
To reach this vision, Mondrian had to go through a series of inner and outer changes, stimulated by encounters with the revolutionary art movements of his time. Yet his closest allies, the, who shared his love of primary colours and black lines, don’t get a look-in here. Instead, Mondrian’s art is hammered into his mystical religious interests, because this is all he shared with the Swedish medium and artist Hilma af Klint.
partly because she resembles 21st-century artists – but putting her next to one of the very greatest modernists does her no favours.Photograph: Albin Dahlström/Courtesy of The Hilma af Klint Foundation
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