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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Lucien Clergue

    Birds at Point Lobos, Point Lobos State Park, Carmel, CA, 1988

    Chromogenic print

    10 x 29.25 in (25.4 x 74.3 cm)

  2. Deals and Blonde, Lexington, KY, Social Context by Larry Fink, Image 1.

    Larry Fink

    Deals and Blonde, Lexington, KY, Social Context, 1987

    Gelatin silver print

    19.875 x 15.875 in (50.48 x 40.32 cm)

  3. Mariandynae Flux Encounter by Alan Saret, Image 2.

    Alan Saret

    Mariandynae Flux Encounter, 1983

    Pencil on paper

    22.5 x 30 in (57.15 x 76.2 cm)

  4. Untitled by Doug Warner, Image 1.

    Doug Warner

    Untitled, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

    11.25 x 7.625 in (28.58 x 19.37 cm)

  5. Untitled by Peter Agostini, Image 1.

    Peter Agostini

    Untitled, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

    26.375 x 32.1875 in (66.99 x 81.76 cm)

  6. Icarian Image III by S. Tucker Cooke, Image 1.

    S. Tucker Cooke

    Icarian Image III, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

    25.25 x 34 in (64.14 x 86.36 cm)

  7. Brown and White Related by William Scott, Image 1.

    William Scott

    Brown and White Related, 1972

    Screenprint on paper

    22.75 x 15 in (57.79 x 38.1 cm)

  8. Untitled by Leopold Hugo, Image 2.

    Leopold Hugo

    Untitled, No date

    Gelatin silver print

    9.875 x 7.875 in (25.08 x 20.0 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.