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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. En Plein Air Abstraction by Jacolby Satterwhite, Image 2.

    Jacolby Satterwhite

    En Plein Air Abstraction, 2017

    HD video with audio

  2. 6629 by James Welling, Image 1.

    James Welling

    6629, 2008

    Pigment print

    10.375 x 16 in (26.35 x 40.64 cm)

  3. Carol Soffer by Andy Warhol, Image 1.

    Andy Warhol

    Carol Soffer, 1980

    Polaroid

    4.25 x 3.375 in (10.8 x 8.57 cm)

  4. Self image in the Grass by Anne Noggle, Image 1.

    Anne Noggle

    Self image in the Grass, 1979

    Silver gelatin print

    14 x 16.75 in (35.56 x 42.55 cm)

  5. The First of Six Images for J by Bernard Cohen, Image 1.

    Bernard Cohen

    The First of Six Images for J, 1976

    Lithograph on paper

    18 x 36.25 in (45.72 x 92.08 cm)

  6. Poor Brethren, Canto XXXII, from Inferno by Ron Kowalke, Image 1.

    Ron Kowalke

    Poor Brethren, Canto XXXII, from Inferno, 1970

    Etching on paper

    22 x 29.5 in (55.88 x 74.93 cm)

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

    Joyce Tenneson

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

    Color instant print (Polaroid)

    30 x 21.875 in (76.2 x 55.56 cm)

  8. Untitled Portrait by Eddy Galllimore Mumma, Image 1.

    Eddy Galllimore Mumma

    Untitled Portrait, ca. 1969-1986

    Acrylic on canvas

    18 x 14 in (45.72 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.