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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Disclosures II by Shan Kelley, Image 1.

    Shan Kelley

    Disclosures II, 2013

    Needle-perforated parchment and printed paper

    35.75 x 24 in (90.81 x 60.96 cm)

  2. Nine Etchings by Hurvin Anderson, Image 1.

    Hurvin Anderson

    Nine Etchings, 2005

    Etching on paper

    21.25 x 28.75 in (53.98 x 73.03 cm)

  3. Blossoms in Mid-Air: A by Richard Black, Image 1.

    Richard Black

    Blossoms in Mid-Air: A, 1978

    Etching on paper

    17.5 x 14.875 in (44.45 x 37.78 cm)

  4. Sunny Parrot in Landscape by Karel Appel, Image 1.

    Karel Appel

    Sunny Parrot in Landscape, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

  5. Watertower I by Allan D'Arcangelo, Image 1.

    Allan D'Arcangelo

    Watertower I, 1973

    Screenprint on paper

    33.125 x 26.125 in (84.14 x 66.36 cm)

  6. High Wind by Herb Jackson, Image 1.

    Herb Jackson

    High Wind, 1972

    Etching on paper

    22 x 30 in (55.88 x 76.2 cm)

  7. Rowers by Julian Trevelyan, Image 1.

    Julian Trevelyan

    Rowers, 1972

    Etching on paper

    23.125 x 30.875 in (58.74 x 78.42 cm)

  8. Cellist by Rosemarie Beck, Image 1.

    Rosemarie Beck

    Cellist, c. 1960

    Lithograph on paper

    12.625 x 9.875 in (32.07 x 25.08 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.