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Also Known As Frank Kupka • François Kupka
Born September 23, 1871 • Czech Republic
Died June 24, 1957 (aged 85) • Puteaux • France
Notable Works “Disks of Newton (Study for Fugue in Two Colors)”
Movement / Style Fauvism • Orphism • abstract art • pointillism

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Portrait of the Artist with His Wife, oil on canvas by František Kupka, 1908; in the Národní Galerie, Prague.
Disks of Newton (Study for Fugue in Two Colours)
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Sonia Delaunay
Russian artist
Eiffel Tower, an oil painting on canvas by Robert Delaunay from 1910–11, is on display at the Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland. The painting was one of Delaunay's contributions to the art movement called cubism.
Robert Delaunay
French painter
Eduardo MacEntyre
Argentine artist
Mondrian, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1942.
Piet Mondrian
Dutch painter
French artist Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
French artist
Camille Pissarro: Self-Portrait
Camille Pissarro
French artist
Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist
How heat transfers from one object to another
Paul Klee
Swiss-German artist
Duchamp, Marcel
Marcel Duchamp
French artist
Braque, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1956
Georges Braque
French artist
Rudolf Bauer
German-born artist
Georges Seurat
Georges Seurat
French painter
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Spanish artist
Fernand Léger, photograph by Arnold Newman, 1941.
Fernand Léger
French painter
Hilma af Klint
Hilma af Klint
Swedish artist
Georges Rouault
French artist
El Lissitzky cover
El Lissitzky
Russian artist
Pierre Soulages
Pierre Soulages
French painter and printmaker
Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly
American painter, sculptor, and printmaker
Olga Vladimirovna Rozanova
Russian artist

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