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No discussion of postwar Dutch art--or postwar European art--is complete without mentioning Karel Appel, whom many consider Holland's most important painter. Appel attended the Academy of Arts in Amsterdam from 1940 to 1943, and then bided his time painting landscapes and portraits in an era when artists were forbidden to buy materials or exhibit unless they joined the German "Chamber of Culture." After the liberation, as reproductions of works by Picasso and others began to find their way to Holland, Appel rebelled against his studio training, founded several avant garde groups (including Cobra), and then moved to Paris. Years of travel and experimentation with subjects, colors and materials, left him with a close relationship to the American art community and studios all over the world. Appel is a sculptor and a ceramist, too, but he is above all an expressionist, a man of passion led by spontaneity, who has conversely made a lasting mark.
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- PublisherArtimo/Meulensteen Art Museum
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 808902517X
- ISBN 13 9788089025176
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages144
- EditorMeulensteen Gerard, Polakovic Vincent, Wimmer Gabrielle
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Couverture rigide. Condition: Neuf. Edition originale. Bratislava 2005. 1 Volume/1. -- As new // Comme Neuf -- Hardback quarto size ( 30,6 x 25,2 cm )( 1250 gr ). ------- 143 pages. ************************** "" Appel was a protagonist of the avant-garde movement Cobra. His work explored classical themes: the figure, the animal, landscape and their combinations. However, his creative idiom differed from the classical approach. Experimentation with colour enabled him to control it. By means of colour I can now do what I want. Yet, it is always a struggle , as he put it. Gradually, he departed from figuration, executing his paintings in thick impasto and violent colours, creating eruptive forms. His artistic expression showed affinity with Art Brut and involved a spontaneous expressive and emotional process characteristic of immediacy and an unrestrained treatment of the medium. He pressed paint from the tube directly on to the canvas, shaping thick layers with a spatula. This was logically linked to the abstraction of the motif. Appel s painting oscillated quite naturally between figuration and abstraction and their mutual penetration. The series of female nudes, transformations of landscape or cosmological compositions on the theme of the Almighty were created at about the same time. Appel used calligraphic, linear and drip painting, screens and spirals, blending the vocabulary of Art Informel and Postmodernism. Rejecting the classical and the traditional, he intensified inspirations drawn from 20th century avant-gardes to create an original artistic expression. "" ********************************* ref U-28. Seller Inventory # 52096554
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