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Kupka
by Jean Cassou
When a certain style of painting has become established when this abstract style was born, this style which
and when painting itself, in its essence and its integrity afterwards was going to absorb the act of painting
is identified with this style, it is interesting to go back completely and become all of painting?
to the moment where it began, to the actual moment In going back to this point of origin and departure,
where painting started changing its definition, its civil we find some extraordinary artists, true inventors:
state. At the present time to paint means painting in Kandinsky, Delaunay, Picabia and others too. And
the abstract style and one can scarcely conceive that amongst them, Frank Kupka. Let us stop at this one
painting could be done differently. But would not a at the moment of his invention, at the first stage of his
search of conscience on this point be an interesting invention. At the moment where what for us has become
operation, even useful, fruitful? Would it not be style had been for him invention. This is to say what he
interesting, useful, fruitful to return to the moment has wanted to do and what he has done. Such an act
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