Sunday, November 3, 2013

Frantisek Kupka (Czech 1871-1957)


Clouds


Planes by Colors, Large Nude (1909–1910)
Oil on canvas, 150.2 x 180.7 cm
Guggenheim Museum, New York

 Creation (1911-1920)


Tale of Pistils and Stames (1920)


Disks of Newton (1912)

Kupka was a Czech painter associated with the Orphist movement (also known as Orphic Cubism). Disks of Newton refers to the work of Sir Isaac Newton, when he discovered that sunlight is actually made up of a rainbow of seven colours (red through to violet).

Nude Girl At The Seaside


self-portrait

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