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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. From the Earth Rise Radiant Beings by Liên Trương, Image 1.

    Liên Trương

    From the Earth Rise Radiant Beings, 2021

    Oil, silk, acrylic, copper pigment, enamel on canvas

    72 x 96 in (182.88 x 243.84 cm)

  2. I am a man by Shepard Fairey, Image 2.

    Shepard Fairey

    I am a man, 2020

    Silkscreen on paper

    35.8 x 24 in (90.93 x 60.96 cm)

  3. Argyle Sock (Calcetín con dibujos geométricos), from the portfolio Borders and Belonging by Susan Harbage Page, Image 1.

    Susan Harbage Page

    Argyle Sock (Calcetín con dibujos geométricos), from the portfolio Borders and Belonging, 2007

    Color inkjet print on cotton rag paper

    17 x 22 in (43.18 x 55.88 cm)

  4. I Tried to Beat Them for Seventy Bucks...How About You? by Paul Szep, Image 1.

    Paul Szep

    I Tried to Beat Them for Seventy Bucks...How About You?, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

    17.5 x 18.5 in (44.45 x 46.99 cm)

  5. A. Black by Justin Knowles, Image 1.

    Justin Knowles

    A. Black, 1971

    Screenprint on paper

    27 x 40 in (68.58 x 101.6 cm)

  6. Still Life with Dark & Light by Joel Goldblatt, Image 1.

    Joel Goldblatt

    Still Life with Dark & Light, c. 1965

    Lithograph on paper

    13.625 x 10.0625 in (34.61 x 25.56 cm)

  7. Job in Despair, from "Drawings for the Bible" by Marc Chagall, Image 1.

    Marc Chagall

    Job in Despair, from "Drawings for the Bible", 1960

    Lithograph on paper

    14.25 x 12 in (36.2 x 30.48 cm)

  8. Egret on a High Branch in the Rain by Koho Shoda, Image 1.

    Koho Shoda

    Egret on a High Branch in the Rain, c. 1930

    Woodblock on paper

    13.125 x 3 in (33.34 x 7.62 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.