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Summary of Karel Appel
Karel Appel was a major painter of the post-war era in the Netherlands, as renowned for his colorful personality as for his free-flowing, spontaneous approach to his work.
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As a founding member of the CoBrA group, along with his Dutch compatriots Corneille Guillaume Beverloo and Constant Nieuwenhuys, Appel developed a radically new approach to painting. He believed in a wholly unschooled form of creative expression, and looked to the art produced by children, mental patients, and artists working outside the canon (Folk artists) for inspiration.
Appel created a vibrant and diverse body of work to rival that of Jean Dubuffet for its striking singularity of manner.
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- Appel and the artists of CoBrA were pioneers in that their art rejected not only the history of figurative painting but also the strictures of avant-garde art.
Working in the wake of World War Two in a Europe that was rebuilding itself in new ways, the CoBrA group saw the old exper