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Amorpha: Fugue in Two Colors II

1910–11

Frantisek Kupka

(Czech, 1871–1957)
Culture
Czechoslovakia, 20th century
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Framed: 129.5 x 84.8 x 7.6 cm (51 x 33 3/8 x 3 in.); Unframed: 111.7 x 68.6 cm (44 x 27 in.); Former: 129.9 x 84.8 x 6.5 cm (51 1/8 x 33 3/8 x 2 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1969.51
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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Location
223 20th Century Avant-Garde
Print
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Did You Know?

Inspired by the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Kupka employed color to try to create something that involved both the visual and the auditory in his art.

Description

The initial subject for this painting was the artist’s stepdaughter Andrée playing in the garden with a ball, but as he worked, František Kupka came to believe that accurately capturing both the movement of the ball and the child at play was impossible. Kupka created an abstract composition comprised of vibrantly colorful curving forms to suggest Andrée’s gestures and the movement of the ball in space. It is one of the earliest steps toward pure abstract painting in the history of modern art.

Amorpha: Fugue in Two Colors II

1910–11

Frantisek Kupka

(Czech, 1871–1957)
Czechoslovakia, 20th century

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