Cosmis Spring I (Cosmic Spring I) by František Kupka (1913/4, oil on canvas, 115 x 125 cm, National Gallery of Prague).
Adapted from the Gallery catalogue:
František Kupka (1871-1957) wrote in his book Tvoření v umění výtvarném (Creation in Visual Art), that he did not seek to copy nature but sought inspiration in varied shapes of nature such as ice crystals, flower buds, freezing vapour, clouds, airflow, and falling stars. Kupka was fascinated by shape analogies which he found in various levels of microstructures and macrostructures – from microphotographs of cells to astronomical photographs of planets.
(Posted because, of course, 1st February was the first day of Spring…)
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