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| Age: | 100 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Country: |  Czech Republic |
| Height: | 0' 1" |
| Zodiac: |  Capricorn (Dec 22- Jan 19) |
| Last Login: | Nov 13, 2007 (333 days back) |
About Me |
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Welcome to Frantisek Kupka page... Frantisek Kupka (Bohême, 23 septembre 1871 - Puteaux, 24 juin 1957). Peintre tchèque, considéré, avec Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian ou Robert Delaunay, comme l'un des pionniers de l'art abstrait dès 1913. En 1896, Kupka s'installe à Paris, à Montmartre, près de son compatriote Alfons Mucha, où il réalise des illustrations pour la presse, notamment des dessins satiriques et corrosifs pour la revue anarchiste "L'Assiette au Beurre". Il a dessiné des études pour un atelier de tapis de Prague. Il est exposé au Centre Beaubourg, au musée Kampa de Prague et à la Galerie nationale à Prague. Frantisek Kupka (September 23, 1871 - June 24, 1957 He 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. Franti,,ek Kupka was born in Opocno, eastern Bohemia (now Czech Republic). From 1889 to 1892, he studied at the at the Prague Art Academy. At this time, he painted historical and patriotic themes. In Kupka enrolled at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna, Vienna, where he concentrated on symbolic and allegorical subjects. He exhibited at the Kunstverein, Vienna, in 1894. His involvement with theosophy and Eastern philosophy dates from this period. By spring 1896, Kupka had settled in Paris; there he attended the Académie Julian briefly and then studied with Jean-Pierre Laurens at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Kupka worked as an illustrator of books and posters and, during his early years in Paris, became known for his satirical drawings for newspapers and magazines. In 1906, he settled in Puteaux, a suburb of Paris, and that same year exhibited for the first time at the Salon d’Automne. Kupka was deeply impressed by the first Futurist manifesto, published in 1909 in Le Figaro. Kupka’s work became increasingly abstract around 1910–11, reflecting his theories of motion, color, and the relationship between music and painting (orphism). In 1911, he attended meetings of the Puteaux group. In 1912, he exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in the Cubist room, although he did not wish to be identified with any movement. Creation in the Plastic Arts, a book Kupka completed in 1913, was published in Prague in 1923. In 1931, he was a founding member of Abstraction-Création. In 1936, his work was included in the exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and in an important show with another excellent Czech painter Alphonse Mucha at the Jeu de Paume in Paris. A retrospective of his work took place at the Galerie Mánes in Prague in 1946. The same year, Kupka participated in the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, where he continued to exhibit regularly until his death. During the early 1950s, he gained general recognition and had several solo shows in New York. Kupka died in Puteaux, France. |
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Founding member of the Abstraction-Creation Group in Paris, 1930s. |
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Music:In 1991 he studied in Vienna and, in 1895, in Paris, where he has lived ever since. He studied from Nature and greatly admired Rodin and Toulouse-Lautrec. He undertook some important illustrative work: Lysistrata, Prometheus of Aeschylus and Les Erinnyes of Leconte de Lisle. He learnt Hebrew when commissioned by Élie Faure to make drawings for a new translation of the Song of Songs. |
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Books:Kupka joined with his neighbour Jacques Villon in the meetings of the Section d'Or, in which a whole group of young Cubists were seeking the ideal proportions of a new painting. He was mentioned by Apollinaire as being among the Orphist painters and the creators of the art of the future. In 1913 the New York Times devoted an article to him in which he was quoted as saying: 'To people who claim that one cannot create forms or colours, I will reply that man has created the Ionic column and the Doric column and that architecture has constantly created forms with well-proportioned and fully justified modifications. . . . Man expresses his thoughts in words . . . Why not create in painting and sculpture, independently of the forms and colours which surround him?' A little later, in the preface to an album of abstract woodcuts, he wrote: 'The work of art, being in itself abstract reality, needs to be made up of invented elements'. |
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Heroes:During the 1914-1918 war Kupka joined an infantry company before becoming an officer in the Czech Legion. Kupka volunteered for military service and fought on the Somme; he also did a good deal of propaganda work such as designing posters and was discharged with the rank of captain in 1919. The French poet Blaise Cendrars, his comrade in battle, has described their experiences in La Main Coupée. After the war Kupka continued his experiments, his expeditions to the extreme limits of knowledge. |
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| MaritalStatus: | Single |
| Children: | I don't want kids |
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