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Amorpha, Fugue in Two Colors

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Oil on canvas by Frantisek Kupka (1912). One of the first abstract paintings publicly exhibited in Europe — shown at the Salon d'Automne, Paris, October 1912. Swirling arcs of red/blue suggest musical rhythm without any recognizable figure. National Gallery Prague.

Scholarly Significance

Anchor Czech abstraction with Kupka's Amorpha, Fugue in Two Colors.

Notes

·Exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, Paris, October 1912 — same salon as Leger's La Femme en bleu.
·One of the first fully non-representational paintings exhibited publicly in Europe.
·Title: 'Amorpha' = formless; 'Fugue in Two Colors' connects to musical counterpoint structure.
·Exhibited alongside companion piece Amorpha, Warm Chromatics (1912) at the same Salon.
·Now considered a founding work of pure abstraction in European art history.