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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Out My Window, Chelsea, Glass House at Night by Gail Albert Halaban, Image 1.

    Gail Albert Halaban

    Out My Window, Chelsea, Glass House at Night, 2008

    Archival pigment print

    40 x 50 in (101.6 x 127.0 cm)

  2. Untitled (B) by Joel Shapiro, Image 1.

    Joel Shapiro

    Untitled (B), 2003

    Woodcut printed on on Gampi paper, mounted onto Hanga Dosa paper

    19.5 x 26.25 in (49.53 x 66.68 cm)

  3. Ge Yang

    Untitled (Story Cloth), c. 2000

    Embroidery on fabric

  4. Shrimp Fleet V by Carl Schwartz, Image 1.

    Carl Schwartz

    Shrimp Fleet V, 1980

    Lithograph on paper

    15 x 22.25 in (38.1 x 56.52 cm)

  5. Pomp by Mel Stanforth, Image 1.

    Mel Stanforth

    Pomp, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

    30.125 x 22.25 in (76.52 x 56.52 cm)

  6. Double Weave by Marilyn Torre, Image 1.

    Marilyn Torre

    Double Weave, 1975

    Intaglio on paper

    35.5 x 23.25 in (90.17 x 59.06 cm)

  7. Después, ahora, ahora, antes (Then, now, now, before) by Juan Genovés, Image 1.

    Juan Genovés

    Después, ahora, ahora, antes (Then, now, now, before), 1970

    Etching on paper

    19.8125 x 25.9375 in (50.32 x 65.88 cm)

  8. Feuilles I (Leaves I) by Jean-Paul Riopelle, Image 1.

    Jean-Paul Riopelle

    Feuilles I (Leaves I), 1967

    Lithograph on paper

    30.875 x 24.125 in (78.42 x 61.28 cm)

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About the artist

Karel Appel

Dutch

1921-2006

Karel Appel was an influential Dutch painter whose figurative abstractions employed expressive colors and forms. Like Jean Dubuffet, Appel found inspiration in the artwork of children and the rejection of sophisticated aesthetic tastes. “Painting, like passion, is an emotion full of truth and rings a living sound, like the roar coming from the lion's breast,” he reflected. “To paint is to destroy what preceded. I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life.” A member of the international avant-garde group CoBrA, founded in Paris in 1948, Karel Appel is broadly known for the whimsical style of his expressionist paintings. Considered the European counterparts of the American Abstract Expressionists, Appel and other members of CoBrA privileged spontaneity in an intuitive, almost child-like approach to painting.