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In 1948 Karel Appel founded Nederlandse Experimentele Group together with
among others Constant, Corneille and Eugene Brands, and later that year
he was one of six who signed the manifest of Cobra in Paris.
Beside his large production of paintings Karel Appel can add graphic works
and illustrations, sculptures, ceramic works and large decorations of
buildings and rooms.
With his colors and childish lines Karel Appel seduces most of us, because
we recognize the childhood and the fantasy in his pictures.
19 years old he are admitted to the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam, where
he study from 1940 to 1943. Until 1947 he is mainly inspired by the abstract
cubic world of Picasso, but from 1947 he move towards the light experimenting
and original expressions we know from childrens drawings. His unspoilt
motifs of children and animals in this period are depicted with strong
and bright colors surrounded by sharp black outlines.
While the motifs stands the way of expression are replaced in the beginning
of the fifthties by a more freely and more emotional way. The quantity
of paint too are used more unrestrained, and for a period he paints almost
three-dimensional paintings.
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