Description Wassily Kandinsky is often recognized as the first artist to paint shapes and colors without regard to visual references in the world.
However, abstract paintings were being produced even before Kandinsky's experiments with the form.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, in England, Sweden, and Switzerland, respectively, Georgiana Houghton, Hilma af Klint, and Emma Kunz each developed their own abstract pictorial language.
Though working completely independently fr.