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František Kupka (September 23, 1871 - June 24, 1957) was a Czech painter and graphic artist. He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the abstract art movement and ...
R. Kenton Nelson
... reductive abstractions, a core tendency of a high modernist, abstract painter is revealed in an exhibition representing a span of some thirty years of the work of Frantisek Kupka.

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František Kupka (1871-1957), Czech painter, who was one of the originators of abstract art. His early work showed a preoccupation with expressive distortion and unusual, often unrealistic, colour. From 1911 to 1912, at the same time as the French painter Robert Delaunay, Kupka painted his first completely abstract works, such as Amorpha: Fugue in Two Colours (1912, Národní Galerie, Prague), consisting of coloured circular forms and lines in a rhythmic arrangement. He continued his experiments in abstraction, grouping his work into five broad categories—Cycles, Verticals, Verticals and Diagonals, Triangles, and Diagonals. Not as influential as other abstract painters, Kupka did not receive deserved recognition until after his death.