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Frantisek Kupka
Encyclopedia of World Biography; 700+ Words Frantisek Kupka Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957) was a Czech painter and illustrator who lived most of his life in Paris. He was one of the first artists to paint abstract canvasses. Frank Kupka was born September 23, 1871, in eastern Bohemia...
Arts collector return home after 50 years to open a unique museum
AP Worldstream; Oct 24, 2003; ; 700+ Words ...love with the work of a then unknown painter named Frantisek Kupka. Born in 1871, Kupka had studied in Prague and Vienna before moving to Paris in 1896. In 1912, Kupka put on display two works, "Fugue" and "Warm...
L'Origines d'abstraction
The Spectator; Nov 29, 2003; ; 700+ Words ...Kandinsky, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Frantisek Kupka and some of the many artists who...Matisse, Mondrian, Kandinsky and Kupka were attracted. Matisse's whole...painting by the otherwise remarkable Kupka actually shows the black and white...
A `Spiritual' view of abstract art // Flawed yet tunning, MCA show show attempts a revisionist reading
Chicago Sun-Times; May 31, 1987; ; 700+ Words ...in this exhibition - Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Kazimir Malevich and Piet Mondrian...accomplished after 1910 by Kandinsky, Kupka, Malevich and Mondrian. Rejecting...Kandinsky's "Compositions," Kupka's cosmogonies, Malevich's minim
Music to our eyes?
The Independent - London; Sep 3, 2007; 700+ Words ...music," said the Czech painter Frantisek Kupka. He painted some of the earliest...theme in modern art all through. Kupka's 1911 study for Amorpha: Fugue...in early avant-garde circles. Kupka, "colour symphonist" and active...
VOXPOP: Which piece of art would you like to own and why?(Viewpoint essay)
Design Week; Oct 15, 2009; 700+ Words ...perfect painting to complement this would be Mme Kupka Amongst Verticals, by Frantisek Kupka, from 1910. I first saw this painting at the...chaos smiles the beautiful, serene face of Madame Kupka. A perfect balance of vibrant chaos completed...
Good vibrations: the sounds of abstraction
International Herald Tribune; Nov 15, 2003; ; 700+ Words ...experimented with by such artists as Frantisek Kupka and Wassili Kandinsky, and by such...the musical and the visual (like Kupka, who may be said to have composed...though brilliantly so in the case of Kupka's large abstractions toward the...
Woodcuts bring royal Rome back to life; Art.(News)
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); Aug 15, 2008; 654 Words ...resurrection. In Nocturnal Wonders works include Frantisek Kupka's The Passage of Silence II of 1903 and Johann Baptist...and death. CAPTION(S): DEEP IN THOUGHT... Frantisek Kupka's The Passage of Silence II (above) features in...
SAM CANVASSES THE CITY FOR TREASURE-TROVE OF PAINTINGS.(Entertainment)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); May 22, 1997; ; 700+ Words ...in ``Seattle Collects'' work better than others. Frantisek Kupka's modestly sized ``Study of Petals'' from 1919...Joan Mitchell, ``Tuscan Flowers,'' from 1980. Kupka's cold, mathematical intelligence looks cautious...
Waiting for the golden pig.(Letter from Prague)(Letter to the Editor)
New Criterion; Feb 1, 2004; ; 700+ Words ...formidable, Czech-American collector of the works of Kupka, Gutfreund, Kolar, and others, especially from the...tactful delicacy amid the coolly blazing canvases of Frantisek Kupka in his more abstract mode. Outside the windows, and...
Czech Republic plans musical treat for Cambodian king on anniversary of diplomatic ties
AP Worldstream; Mar 9, 2006; 329 Words ...feature an exhibition of seven original drawings from 1905 by Czech artist Frantisek Kupka, a world-famous abstract painter who died in 1957. A book containing Kupka's 107 drawings "Man and Earth," which costs more than US$4,000...
AN EYE FOR AN EAR
Artforum; Jul 1, 2005; ; 700+ Words ...self-purifying separation of painting from all other genres. But he had a small problem: Kandinsky, Mondrian, Frantisek Kupka, Robert Delaunay, Francis Picabia, Marsden Hartley, and just about every other pioneer of abstraction was inspired...
Alexej Koschkarow
Artforum; Dec 1, 2002; ; 700+ Words ...emphasis on knowledge in positing the idea of art. But even one of the founders of abstract painting, the Czech artist Frantisek Kupka, warned in his unjustly forgotten theoretical work Creation in the Plastic Arts (1923) against basing art on knowledge...
Rehoused: Schoenberg. (Vienna, Austria, opens its Arnold Schoenberg Centre to salute the great composer)(Brief Article)
The Economist (US); May 2, 1998; 700+ Words ...of Modern and Contemporary Art there is a big exhibition devoted to the pioneering abstract art of another Czech, Frantisek Kupka. Meanwhile in Budapest, a retrospective show of the work of the "father of Hungarian Art Nouveau", Jozsef Rippl...
Czech press review 04/02/2008 - Government & Economy.
Czech Business News; Feb 4, 2008; 700+ Words ...for CZK 19.5 mln, which was the starting price. The Czech Republic's most expensive painting, Elevation by Frantisek Kupka, was sold for CZK 22.1 mln in October 2007. [Hospodarske noviny] LC/EJ For further information please contact...
'WE ARE NOW A MAJOR MUSEUM' SAM ANNOUNCES GIFTS OF NEARLY 1,000 WORKS.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); Mar 30, 2007; ; 700+ Words ...Gladys Rubinstein put together a stellar group of early European modernists, such as Jawlensky, Robert Delaunay and Frantisek Kupka. When Patterson Sims became modern art curator at SAM in the early 1990s, he found out about their collection and...
Colour blind The private collection of Werner and Gabrielle Merzbacher resembles a Who's Who of late-19th- and early-20th-century art. But where it excels in super-saturated colour, it lacks in radicalism, says KEVIN JACKSON
The Independent - London; Jul 30, 2002; ; 700+ Words ...Futurists, and remarkably little in the way of pure or pure- ish abstract work from any faction or -ism, though Frantisek Kupka has been recruited with a big yellow eye-smacker entitled Notre Dame (1911). With a few exceptions, the rule...
Money for (historic) kitsch
Jerusalem Post; May 10, 1998; ; 700+ Words ...a fabulous 1912 portrait, Jewish Girl, by Alexei von Jawlensky ($500,000-$700,000); and works by Frantisek Kupka, Oskar Schlemmer, Natalie Gontcharova, Theo van Doesburg and Fernand Leger. The Weinberg consignment is expected...
Prague museum rebounds.(Front Page)(Museum Kampa)(Brief Article)
Art in America; Nov 1, 2003; 627 Words ...among the Kampa's holdings is a group of over 200 paintings and works on paper by the seminal Czech abstractionist Frantisek Kupka, selections of which will be on permanent display. The museum also features 18 major bronzes from the early decades...
Collector pledges big gift to Art Institute Artists include Matisse, Picasso, Gauguin
Chicago Sun-Times; Apr 18, 2003; ; 656 Words ...Lautrec, Georges Braque, Joan Miro, Edvard Munch, Edouard Vuillard, Juan Gris, Emil Nolde, Arshile Gorky, Frantisek Kupka, Willem de Kooning and other European and American modernists. They will add to an already notable collection of...
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