Article: Karel Appel 1921-2006.(Obituary)(Brief article)

Karel Appel, who died on May 3, has always been linked with the art group that he helped to found in Paris in 1948, and was named CoBrA in acknowledgement of the origins of the group's main participants in Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam. Appel's mature style--a direct, spontaneous, intuitive and expressive creation of images without following a preconceived plan--was achieved as a result of his contact with Jean Dubuffet and his notion of an Art Brut, and the particular way in which this built on an approach to painting that had previously rested in the example of Picasso. From this time Appel made a name for himself for his characteristically expressive and violent ...

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