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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

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

    Richard Black

    Blossoms in Mid-Air: C, 1978

    Etching on paper

    17.5 x 14.75 in (44.45 x 37.47 cm)

  2. h-Ahn-ya by John Talleur, Image 1.

    John Talleur

    h-Ahn-ya, 1976

    Etching on paper

    14 x 10.875 in (35.56 x 27.62 cm)

  3. Homage to a Square by Josef Albers, Image 1.

    Josef Albers

    Homage to a Square, 1971

    Screenprint on paper

    13.625 x 13.625 in (34.61 x 34.61 cm)

  4. Hooded Figures by Nicholas Monro, Image 1.

    Nicholas Monro

    Hooded Figures, 1970

    Screenprint on paper

    27.625 x 40 in (70.17 x 101.6 cm)

  5. Astres et Désastres (Stars and Disasters) by Pierre Alechinsky, Image 1.

    Pierre Alechinsky

    Astres et Désastres (Stars and Disasters), 1969

    Aquatint on paper

    15.375 x 19 in (39.05 x 48.26 cm)

  6. For The Year of the Insane by Barbara Swan, Image 1.

    Barbara Swan

    For The Year of the Insane, 1969

    Lithograph on paper with poem by Anne Sexton

    29.5 x 21.25 in (74.93 x 53.98 cm)

  7. Les Damnations by Roberto Matta, Image 1.

    Roberto Matta

    Les Damnations, 1966

    Lithograph on paper

    16.375 x 12.75 in (41.59 x 32.39 cm)

  8. Untitled by Utagawa 歌川 Kunisada 国貞, Image 1.

    Utagawa 歌川 Kunisada 国貞

    Untitled, c. 1850

    Woodblock on paper

    9 x 14 in (22.86 x 35.56 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.