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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Terror Firma: See, Flee by Ryan O'Malley, Image 1.

    Ryan O'Malley

    Terror Firma: See, Flee, 2009

    Screenprint on paper

    14.25 x 22 in (36.2 x 55.88 cm)

  2. Thamyris by Will Petersen, Image 1.

    Will Petersen

    Thamyris, 1983

    Lithograph on paper

    15 x 19.125 in (38.1 x 48.58 cm)

  3. Interior View by Ronald Richard, Image 1.

    Ronald Richard

    Interior View, 1980

    Lithograph on paper

    29.125 x 21.125 in (73.98 x 53.66 cm)

  4. Old Stairway-Lakeside by John Talleur, Image 1.

    John Talleur

    Old Stairway-Lakeside, 1973

    Etching on paper

    18 x 15.5 in (45.72 x 39.37 cm)

  5. High Wind by Herb Jackson, Image 1.

    Herb Jackson

    High Wind, 1972

    Etching on paper

    22 x 30 in (55.88 x 76.2 cm)

  6. Black Quartered Arc by Gordon House, Image 1.

    Gordon House

    Black Quartered Arc, 1970

    Etching on paper

    20.5 x 15.625 in (52.07 x 39.69 cm)

  7. Dramatic Works of Shakespeare - A Midsummers Night's Dream by John Boydell, Image 1.

    John Boydell

    Dramatic Works of Shakespeare - A Midsummers Night's Dream, 1803

    Engraving on paper

  8. General Dynamic F.U.N. No Heroes Developed by Eduardo Paolozzi, Image 1.

    Eduardo Paolozzi

    General Dynamic F.U.N. No Heroes Developed, 1965/70

    Photolithograph

    15 x 10 in (38.1 x 25.4 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.