1911, František Kupka, Irregular Forms: Creation -- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
From the museum label: A pioneer of abstraction, Frantisek Kupka used color and form to express the spiritual themes of his art as early as 1910. He argued that properly composed colors could bring the viewer into contact with seemingly immaterial concepts, such as thought, spiritualism, and mysticism. Understanding color to have rhythmic qualities, Kupka explored the similarities between the composition of paintings and music. In Irregular Forms: Creation, he conveys the materialization of order out of chaos through an effervescent accumulation of colorful forms, building and rising as in a musical crescendo. After arriving in Paris in 1896, Kupka became active among the artists living and working in the suburb of Puteaux, sharing ideas with Cubists, Futurists and Fauves, such as Raymond Duchamp-Villon and his brother Jacques Villon.
1911, František Kupka, Irregular Forms: Creation -- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
From the museum label: A pioneer of abstraction, Frantisek Kupka used color and form to express the spiritual themes of his art as early as 1910. He argued that properly composed colors could bring the viewer into contact with seemingly immaterial concepts, such as thought, spiritualism, and mysticism. Understanding color to have rhythmic qualities, Kupka explored the similarities between the composition of paintings and music. In Irregular Forms: Creation, he conveys the materialization of order out of chaos through an effervescent accumulation of colorful forms, building and rising as in a musical crescendo. After arriving in Paris in 1896, Kupka became active among the artists living and working in the suburb of Puteaux, sharing ideas with Cubists, Futurists and Fauves, such as Raymond Duchamp-Villon and his brother Jacques Villon.