Packet 10: Bonus 20

A woman’s face peers out from amidst rectangular patches of color in this artist’s portrait of his wife “among verticals.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this artist who used blue parallelograms to evoke stained glass in his painting The Cathedral. Along with a husband-and-wife couple, this artist pioneered an offshoot of Cubism known for abstraction and bright colors.
ANSWER: František Kupka
[10m] Kupka’s The Cathedral was inspired by his studies of this Gothic cathedral, whose stained glass works include The Blue Virgin as well as three rose windows.
ANSWER: Chartres Cathedral
[10e] Kupka’s abstraction was partly motivated by his involvement in this spiritual movement, which also inspired Nicholas Roerich and Wassily Kandinsky and was founded by H.P. Blavatsky.
ANSWER: Theosophy [or the Theosophical Society]
<KN, Visual Fine Arts> | NAFTA-Packet-10

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