![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](http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktkqal2Dai1qzw5wjo1_500.jpg)
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.
