Danish String Quartet: Shine You No More

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Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957), *Mouvement*, signed ‘Kupka’ (lower right), oil on canvas, 19.7/8 x 25 in. (50.8 x 65.2 cm.), Painted in 1913-1919, Image Source: Christie’s

Kupka explained the correlation between vision and music: “I have come to believe it is not really the object of art to reproduce the subject photographically… Music is the art of sounds that are not in nature and almost entirely created. Man created the articulation of thoughts by words. He created writings, he created the aeroplane and the locomotive. Therefore, why may he not create in painting and sculpture independently of forms and colors of the world around him?…The public certainely needs to add to the action of the optic nerve those of the olfactory, acoustic, and the sensory ones. I am still groping in the dark but I believe I can find something between sight and hearing and I can produce a fugue in colors, as Bach has done in music” (Quoted in Warschawsky, “Orphism, Latest of Painting Cults, The New York Times, 19 October 1913).
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