Zu-Fall

Coincidentally at least two abstract painters, Hilma af Klint and Barnett Newman, have reached abstraction through depicting something floral.

In Klint's case the images are more ornamental, in Newman's something simply grows.

Excerpt from Newman's CV as stated in 'Barnett Newman - Selected Writings and Interviews':
1940  Ceases full-time teaching, teaches night school instead. Pursues serious study of botany at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
1941  Takes graduate courses in botany and ornithology at Cornell University.