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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Immigration Reform by Shepard Fairey, Image 1.

    Shepard Fairey

    Immigration Reform, 2009

    Screenprint on paper

    24 x 17.9 in (60.96 x 45.47 cm)

  2. Counter Offer by Carey Young, Image 5.

    Carey Young

    Counter Offer, 2008

    Archival inkjet print

    11.625 x 8.125 in (29.53 x 20.64 cm)

  3. Heart Attack by Pamela DeLaura, Image 1.

    Pamela DeLaura

    Heart Attack, 1987

    Lithograph on paper

    29.875 x 22.375 in (75.88 x 56.83 cm)

  4. Untitled by Peter Bodnar, Image 1.

    Peter Bodnar

    Untitled, 1982

    Etching and aquatint on paper

    14.625 x 17.75 in (37.15 x 45.09 cm)

  5. Sitting Frogs by Gay Rogers, Image 1.

    Gay Rogers

    Sitting Frogs, 1980

    Lithograph on paper

    19.125 x 15.125 in (48.58 x 38.42 cm)

  6. Stanley William Hayter

    Story, 1979

    Engraving on paper

    15.75 x 11.5 in (40.01 x 29.21 cm)

  7. Untitled by Conrad Marca-Relli, Image 1.

    Conrad Marca-Relli

    Untitled, 1973

    Lithograph on paper

  8. Garden in August by Karl Schrag, Image 1.

    Karl Schrag

    Garden in August, 1972

    Etching on paper

    17.5 x 14.75 in (44.45 x 37.47 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.