A vertical Kupka tried to resolve the question of the shape functions in the organization of pictorial space, it led him to the geometric abstraction.
Along this theme verticality Kupka working on a roundabout. In numerous drawings and sketches of lotus flowers Kupka treats his subject in the abstract, he is interested in the interaction tsentrostemitelnogo and centrifugal motion, reflecting the universal gravitation. Abstract Kupka is specific in that it combines his interest in scientific laws and its metaphysical aspirations.
At this time, the nascent movement Cubists, and Marcel Duchamp, followed with interest his work, invited him to participate, but declined Kupka - he valued his independence.
At the beginning of the war, in 1914, Kupka went into the French army as a volunteer. Returning from the front, he finished the revision of his essay "On creativity in the plastic arts", which began in 1910 (it was published in Czech in 1923). There he wrote: "One can distinguish two broad categories of works of plastic arts. On the one hand, those that reflect the artist's choice to depict his impression of nature as it is reflected in its creation. On the other - works in which the painter or sculptor invites us to decipher its speculative idea, which he embodied in a combination of plastic and chromatic elements. "
The theoretical foundation for Kupka painting was very important.
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