Frantisek Kupka's retrospective passes in Grand Palais

Frantisek Kupka's Huge retrospective (1871–1957) — the most known French artist of the Czech origin who laid a direct and logical way from the Vienna symbolism to cosmopolitan abstraction. At Grand Palais 300 works from the most prestigious museums of the world, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Guggenheim's Museum in New York, Albertina in Vienna, Ateneuma to Helsinki, National gallery in Prague are collected. By words Markety Teynkhardt, a sokurator of the project, the historian of art from Sorbonne, so turned out that Kupka is less known, than other pioneers of abstraction — Kandinsky Vasilii and Malevich Kazimir. Detailed academic display of the artist, since his early works of the 1890th years before late works of the 1950th, has to meet this lack. At the same time to remind the motto of Kupka which is pertinent in many situations and beseems any artist: "In all arts when you allocate one thing, it always is from the very beginning connected and there is because of existence another".

Kupka began Fussler

In the 1931st Teo of van of Doesburg, one of founders of De Stijl group, invited Kupka to participate in Abstraktion-kreation association creation for support of geometrical abstract art. Kupka responded with enthusiasm, composed some manifestos, including "Lie of the third measurement", and created the abstract compositions constructed on interaction of black lines and a white background.

In the last decades lives Kupka worked with

over "Series C" — the minimalistic linear abstraction reminding at the same time and work Kandinsky Vasilii, and Mondriana. After display in Paris exhibition in the fall of 2018 will go to Prague, and in the spring the 2019th will move to Helsinki.

Grand Palais

Kupka. The pioneer of abstraction
Till July 30