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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Dirty Laundry by Mella Jaarsma, Image 1.

    Mella Jaarsma

    Dirty Laundry, 2017

    Mixed media costume

  2. Rodney Crowell's Masterpiece, 2001 by Gene Merritt, Image 1.

    Gene Merritt

    Rodney Crowell's Masterpiece, 2001, 2001

    Ink on paper

    12 x 9 in (30.48 x 22.86 cm)

  3. Wedding, Long Central Neck, NYC, Social Context by Larry Fink, Image 1.

    Larry Fink

    Wedding, Long Central Neck, NYC, Social Context, 1988

    Gelatin silver print

    19.875 x 15.875 in (50.48 x 40.32 cm)

  4. Mary Uhlir, Montgomery, Minnesota by Sue Kyllonen, Image 1.

    Sue Kyllonen

    Mary Uhlir, Montgomery, Minnesota, 1987

    Gelatin silver print

    6 x 9 in (15.24 x 22.86 cm)

  5. Robert Amberg

    Hoy Shelton Family Hanging Tobacco, Hopewell, North Carolina, 1983

    Gelatin silver print

    8.125 x 12.125 in (20.64 x 30.8 cm)

  6. Triangles Within a Square V by Gordon House, Image 1.

    Gordon House

    Triangles Within a Square V, 1971

    Etching on paper

    24.75 x 17.875 in (62.87 x 45.4 cm)

  7. She Kept On Growing by Graham Ovenden, Image 1.

    Graham Ovenden

    She Kept On Growing, 1970

    Screenprint on paper

    25.875 x 19.75 in (65.72 x 50.17 cm)

  8. Untitled by Anne Noggle, Image 1.

    Anne Noggle

    Untitled

    Gelatin silver print

    24 x 19.75 in (60.96 x 50.17 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.