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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. El Extranjero by Delia Cugat, Image 1.

    Delia Cugat

    El Extranjero, 2005

    Oil on canvas

    29.375 x 16 in (74.61 x 40.64 cm)

  2. Paul Dockery and Horses, Anderson Branch/Madison County, North Carolina by Tim Barnwell, Image 1.

    Tim Barnwell

    Paul Dockery and Horses, Anderson Branch/Madison County, North Carolina, 1980

    Gelatin silver print

    11.375 x 10.5 in (28.89 x 26.67 cm)

  3. Paul by Sigmund Abeles, Image 1.

    Sigmund Abeles

    Paul, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

    29.875 x 22.25 in (75.88 x 56.52 cm)

  4. A Line is Born by Judith Winston-Schlecter, Image 1.

    Judith Winston-Schlecter

    A Line is Born, 1978

    Screenprint on paper

    12.75 x 12 in (32.39 x 30.48 cm)

  5. Sculptures II by Joan Miró, Image 2.

    Joan Miró

    Sculptures II, 1974

    Color lithograph on paper

    11 x 22 in (27.94 x 55.88 cm)

  6. La Fermede la Bandeliere (The Farm of the Bandelier) by Jacques Villon, Image 1.

    Jacques Villon

    La Fermede la Bandeliere (The Farm of the Bandelier), 1905

    Aquatint and etching on woven paper

    21.5 x 25.25 in (54.61 x 64.14 cm)

  7. The Persian Sibyl by Giorgio Ghisi, Image 1.

    Giorgio Ghisi

    The Persian Sibyl, c. 1570

    Engraving on paper

    22 x 17 in (55.88 x 43.18 cm)

  8. Arthur Segal

    Untitled, No date

    Woodcut on paper

    11.25 x 15.5 in (28.58 x 39.37 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.