Frantisek Kupka

Frantisek Kupka

September 23, 1871 – June 24, 1957

 

 

Frank Kupka or François Kupka,

was a Czech painter and graphic artist.

He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases

of the abstract art movement and Orphic cubism (Orphism).

Kupka's abstract works arose from a base of realism,

but later evolved into pure abstract art.

 

 

 

 

Planes by Colors, Large Nude, (Plans par couleurs, grand nu),

1909?1910, oil on canvas, 150.2 x 180.7 cm,

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

 

 

 

 

 

Colours and Abstraction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Yellow Scale

 

 

 

Works in Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy

 

 

 

Vertical Planes

 

 

 

The Cathedral, 1912-1913,

oil on canvas, 180 x 150 cm

 

 

 

Disks of Newton, Study for Fugue in Two Colors

 

 

 

Admiration, 1899

 

The Way Of Silence, 1903

 

Babylon, 1906

 

The Colossus Of Rhodes, 1904

 

Sketch for Bather, 1906

 

 

Planes By Colours, Large Nude, 1909

 

Girl With A Ball, 1908

 

Amorpha, Fugue In Two Colours II, 1911

 

Mme Kupka Among Verticals, 1911

 

Study For Vertical Lines, 1911

 

Organisation Of Graphic Motifs II, 1913

 

The Piano Keys, 1914

 

Vertical & Diagonal Planes, 1914

 

Vertical Study in Yellow, 1915

 

 

Reminiscence of a Cathedral, 1920

 

 

The Machine Drill, 1929

 

Blowing Blues II, 1936

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Book Lover, 1897

 

 

 

The Wave, 1902

 

 

The Cathedral, 1912-13

 

 

Creation, 1920

 

 

Two Grays II, 1928

 

 

Sourire O, 1933

 

 

 

 Prism, 1947