Czech painter, graphic artist, illustrator and one of the founders of modern abstract painting, would have celebrated 150 years on September 23rd this year.
He was a pioneer and co-founder of the early phases of the abstract art movement and Orphic Cubism (Orphism). Kupka's abstract works arose from a base of realism, but later evolved into pure abstract art.
Art historian Veronika Wolf from the National Gallery in Prague presents Highlights from the National Gallery.
Art Talk by Milena Kalinovsk
Milena Kalinovska (born 1948) is a curator of visual arts and art educator. She has Czech and Russian ancestry, and is a triple national with British, American and Czech citizenship. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in its second year, 1985.
She was director of public programs and education at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC from 2004–2015 and she became director of the modern and contemporary art collection at the National Gallery in Prague in 2015. Previously, Kalinovska served as director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and as adjunct curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York
