Konstnär: Frantisek Kupka

Stil: Abstract Expressionism

ämnen: Colour Nudes

datum: 1910

museum: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, United States)

"In this work, Kupka rendered the figure of his wife, Eugénie, in vivid shades of purple, green, yellow, and blue, devising an innovative modeling technique based on color, not line or shade, that sections her body into tonal planes in such a way that her “inner form” is made visible. This unveiling of the unseen is crucial, for Kupka believed that it is only through the senses, through physical experience, that we can reach an extrasensory, metaphysical dimension and thereafter achieve an intuitive understanding of the universal scheme underlying existence." Bridget Alsdorf