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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Star by Hayv Kahraman, Image 1.

    Hayv Kahraman

    Star, 2017

    Oil, linen, RSG and pigment on paper

    22.75 x 19 in (57.79 x 48.26 cm)

  2. Another Page, from the portfolio "Utopia" by Debra Durst, Image 1.

    Debra Durst

    Another Page, from the portfolio "Utopia", 1989

    Letterpress on paper

    22.5 x 14.875 in (57.15 x 37.78 cm)

  3. Glass over Face, France, Social Context by Larry Fink, Image 1.

    Larry Fink

    Glass over Face, France, Social Context, 1988

    Gelatin silver print

    19.875 x 15.875 in (50.48 x 40.32 cm)

  4. Mary Ellen Mark

    Three Girls in Plaid, from the portfolio "In America", 1986

    Gelatin silver print

    13.875 x 10.875 in (35.24 x 27.62 cm)

  5. Tina by Frank Huntington Stack, Image 1.

    Frank Huntington Stack

    Tina, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

    22.125 x 14.9375 in (56.2 x 37.94 cm)

  6. Widow's Walk by Will Barnet, Image 1.

    Will Barnet

    Widow's Walk, 1975

    Lithograph on paper

    25.375 x 19.5 in (64.45 x 49.53 cm)

  7. Butterfly 6 by Marion A. Epting, Image 1.

    Marion A. Epting

    Butterfly 6, 1971

    Etching and aquatint on paper

    26.25 x 32.3125 in (66.68 x 82.07 cm)

  8. Unknown

    In Memory Deeply Lamented by 42 Millions of People, 1967

    Patchwork applique

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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.