""I used to half-close my eyes, trying to block my thoughts as if meditating, and then attempt to compose the picture I had envisioned.""
""Figuration left me as if it were diluting itself," she explained, marking her transition to abstraction in the 1960s."
Ides Kihlen, an esteemed Argentinian abstract painter, died at 108. She had her first solo exhibition at 85 and was represented by Galería Via Margutta. Kihlen's artistic journey began in her teens, balancing painting and music throughout her career. Her creative process involved a meditative approach, resulting in works that combined geometric forms and colored paper on various backgrounds. Born in 1917, she studied at the National School of Decorative Arts and shifted to abstraction in the 1960s, moving away from figurative art.
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