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Frantisec Kupka, Defiance (Black Idol), 1900-1903, Colored aquatint on paper, 34.7 x 34.7 cm. In Morbid Colours, pl 407 Kupka’s Defiance is “an overwhelming dark colossus in a snowswept desert, [… ] thus semi-stone giant protruding into a gloomy atmosphere, in a wild isolation dominating cold dark waters and the heavy lines of the snow-swept wilderness in fantastic flashes, it has much stubborn strength, and a suffocating suggesti-veness” — K. B. Mádl (1908) quoted by Urban, p. 289. National Gallery, Prague

Frantisec Kupka, Defiance (Black Idol), 1900-1903, Colored aquatint on paper, 34.7 x 34.7 cm.

In Morbid Colours, pl 407

Kupka’s Defiance is “an overwhelming dark colossus in a snowswept desert, [… ] thus semi-stone giant protruding into a gloomy atmosphere, in a wild isolation dominating cold dark waters and the heavy lines of the snow-swept wilderness in fantastic flashes, it has much stubborn strength, and a suffocating suggesti-veness” — K. B. Mádl (1908) quoted by Urban, p. 289.

National Gallery, Prague

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