altarpiece no 2 hilma de klintBetween the lower and the higher, the internal and the external, the earthly and the spiritual, reality and metaphysics, good and evil: the metaphorical choice of colours is established such as blue for the feminine spirit, yellow for the masculine spirit and red for love. Thus the horizontal reading, composed of red and pink, is disrupted when the gaping triangle reverses the direction of the composition to raise the earthly spirit to the celestial.