Evolution Nr 13 by Hilma Af Klint Illustration-Japanese balanced symmetry – but the

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

It is one of the earliest sustained series of purely abstract paintings in Western art history

saturated colour

It is abstract painting working at its most musical

every flat plane clean

Evolution Nr 13 by Hilma Af Klint Illustration-Japanese balanced symmetry – but thePainted years before abstraction had a name, Hilma af Klint's Evolution Nr 13 operates on its own symbolic logic. Biomorphic forms in pale pinks, warm yellows and deep ochres overlap and divide the horizontal field shapes that suggest cells, petals or the stages of a cycle, without resolving into any single reading. The palette is soft but purposeful, each colour boundary crisp enough to feel deliberate. Af Klint structures the composition with an