Skip to profile content
Discovery
Log In
Viewing collection Printmaking Clear context

Additional Artworks

From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Afterimage by Jiuyu Xiao, Image 1.

    Jiuyu Xiao

    Afterimage, 2019

    Dragon skin and collage on paper

    25.25 x 19.75 in (64.14 x 50.17 cm)

  2. Wise Men, Three by Donald Richard Sexauer, Image 1.

    Donald Richard Sexauer

    Wise Men, Three, 1979

    Etching on paper

    8.875 x 22.375 in (22.54 x 56.83 cm)

  3. Project II by Garo Zareh Antreasian, Image 1.

    Garo Zareh Antreasian

    Project II, 1978

    Lithograph on paper

    20.75 x 26.5 in (52.71 x 67.31 cm)

  4. States of Mind VI by Keith Achepohl, Image 1.

    Keith Achepohl

    States of Mind VI, 1975

    Lithograph on paper

    22 x 18 in (55.88 x 45.72 cm)

  5. Sunny Beach Life by Karel Appel, Image 1.

    Karel Appel

    Sunny Beach Life, 1974

    Lithograph on paper

  6. Triplane by Julian Trevelyan, Image 1.

    Julian Trevelyan

    Triplane, 1974

    Etching on paper

    15.625 x 22.75 in (39.69 x 57.79 cm)

  7. Rubbing #6 by Bernard Pfriem, Image 1.

    Bernard Pfriem

    Rubbing #6, 1961

    Lithograph on paper

    10 x 14 in (25.4 x 35.56 cm)

  8. Dramatic Works of Shakespeare - Titus Andronicus by John Boydell, Image 1.

    John Boydell

    Dramatic Works of Shakespeare - Titus Andronicus, 1803

    Engraving on paper

    32.5 x 26.5 in (82.55 x 67.31 cm)

View All Artworks

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.