Buddha´s Standpoint by Hilma Af Klint Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm Soft watercolour washes build the

Soft watercolour washes build the plumage in layered tones of slate blue and russet

balancing strong female portraiture with an almost decorative abstraction of line and form

one of the most highly regarded Nanga (literati) painters of the Edo period

the ink wash gradations and fine brushwork of this Ming dynasty composition are reproduced with exceptional tonal depth and line clarity

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

Buddha´s Standpoint by Hilma Af Klint Size:L - 70 x 100.0cm Soft watercolour washes build 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,