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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Eye on Door, Spook-A-Rama, Coney Island, Pennsylvania by Lisa Kereszi, Image 1.

    Lisa Kereszi

    Eye on Door, Spook-A-Rama, Coney Island, Pennsylvania, 2007

    Archival pigment print

    30 x 40 in (76.2 x 101.6 cm)

  2. Unidentified Woman (Short Dark Hair) by Andy Warhol, Image 1.

    Andy Warhol

    Unidentified Woman (Short Dark Hair), 1980

    Polaroid

    4.25 x 3.375 in (10.8 x 8.57 cm)

  3. Unidentified Woman (Red Ruby Earrings) by Andy Warhol, Image 1.

    Andy Warhol

    Unidentified Woman (Red Ruby Earrings), 1979

    Polaroid

    4.25 x 3.375 in (10.8 x 8.57 cm)

  4. Man with Snake, Bangkok by Stephen Perloff, Image 1.

    Stephen Perloff

    Man with Snake, Bangkok, 1977

    Gelatin silver print

    10.875 x 13.875 in (27.62 x 35.24 cm)

  5. History of Printmaking: Ben Franklin at Versailles by Warrington W. Colescott, Image 1.

    Warrington W. Colescott

    History of Printmaking: Ben Franklin at Versailles, 1976

    Etching on paper

    19.75 x 26 in (50.17 x 66.04 cm)

  6. Untitled (Abstract Venetian urban landscape) by Edna Tacon, Image 1.

    Edna Tacon

    Untitled (Abstract Venetian urban landscape), 1969

    Watercolor on paper

    19.75 x 10.75 in (50.17 x 27.31 cm)

  7. Unknown by Utagawa 歌川 Kunisada 国貞, Image 1.

    Utagawa 歌川 Kunisada 国貞

    Unknown, 1820

    Woodblock on paper

    14.25 x 9.5 in (36.2 x 24.13 cm)

  8. Untitled (from "Photographs of Women") by Joyce Tenneson, Image 1.

    Joyce Tenneson

    Untitled (from "Photographs of Women"), 1985-2005

    Color instant print (Polaroid)

    28.75 x 22 in (73.03 x 55.88 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.