Frasi di Karel Appel

Karel Appel è stato un pittore e scultore olandese.

Ha studiato al Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten di Amsterdam dal 1940 al 1943.

La sua prima mostra è del 1946 a Groninga. Nella pittura è stato influenzato da Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse e Jean Dubuffet.

Nel 1948 fondò il movimento CoBrA con Pierre Alechinsky, Guillaume Corneille, Constant, Asger Jorn, Jan Nieuwenhuys e Christian Dotremont.

Nel 1950 si trasferì a Parigi e da quel momento sviluppò la sua notorietà in tutto il mondo compiendo frequenti viaggi negli Stati Uniti d'America, in Messico e in Brasile.

Sue opere si trovano nei seguenti musei:



Museum of Modern Art e nel Museo Guggenheim di New York

Tate Gallery di Londra

Museum of Fine Arts di Boston

Fine Arts Museums di San Francisco

Museum of Fine Arts di Montréal

Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna di Roma

Centro D'Arte Contemporanea presso la Fattoria La Loggia di San Casciano in Val di Pesa Firenze

MAC di LissoneNel 1995 realizza la scenografia del Flauto magico per una realizzazione dell'Opera olandese con la direzione di Riccardo Muti. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Aprile 1921 – 3. Maggio 2006
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Karel Appel Frasi e Citazioni

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Karel Appel: Frasi in inglese

“The Cobra group started new, and first of all we threw away all these things we had known and started afresh, like a child — fresh and new. Sometimes my works look very childish, or childlike, schizophrenic or stupid, you know. But that was the good thing for me. Because, for me, the material is the paint itself. The paint expresses itself. In the mass of paint, I find my imagination and go on to paint it.”

Quoted in: 'Karel Appel, Dutch Expressionist Painter, Dies at 85', by Margalit Fox, in 'Art & Design', New York Times May 9, 2006
Quote of an oral history in 'Contemporary Artists' - Karel Appel describes the wild artistic urgency that gave rise to the Cobra artist-group

“.. people always talk about painting, because basically painting does not talk.”

Karel Appel defines his painting', interview 1968

“Of course, I painted before Cobra, as afterwards. Each one of us [CoBrA-artists] had his own personality. Cobra is only a very short period of my life. It was like a crossroads. We crossed paths and each continued on his way.... We [artists] are not born to form groups. A group that lasted for too long would destroy the creative activity of its members.”

Quote of Appel in an interview with fr:Michel Ragon, 1963; as quoted in; Karel Appel, a gesture of colour, Jean-François Lyotard, (original French text of 1992 based upon intensive correspondence with Karel Appel), Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Herman Parret; University Press, Leuven, Belgium, 2009, p. 105
fr:Michel Ragon asked Appel: 'Without Cobra, would you have been what you are today?'

“.. at least fifty [gouaches painted in complete dark], one after another. Then I made a light, a candle, and I picked them up and turned them around, as I couldn't see a top or a bottom. I finished them off as I felt fit, a bit more white or a red spot [in his studio in Amsterdam, in 1947”

Quote from a talk in 1990 with Rudi Fuchs; in 'Appel, about growing older'; as quoted by Frank van der Ploeg, in 'The Low Countries'. Jaargang 12(2004) http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_low001200401_01/_low001200401_01_0027.php

“Pollock... I also feel
like an erupting volcano.”

ATV, 187; p. 167
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)

“When you get older as a painter and you've got the opportunities, the talent and the good fortune and have been provided with everything for getting old, then it's fantastic, because the same brushstroke that you put down is more mature and more poignant than it was when you were young.”

Quote from a 1995 interview with Rudi Fuchs; in 'Appel, about growing older'; as quoted by Frank van der Ploeg, in 'The Low Countries'. Jaargang 12(2004) http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_low001200401_01/_low001200401_01_0027.php

“I am afraid of a new barbarism which is killing
man's freedom.”

ATV 179; p. 151
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)

“Something appears midway between order and chaos, these forms, these expressions occupy a middle position.”

1973 - from CF,35; p. 67
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)

“Theories / are things... Absence and nonexistence / of theories are things.”

quote 1983 - from CF, 63; p. 55
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)

“A war is raging within me that burns everything. So I can begin again.”

quote 1982 - from CF, 48; p. 83
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)

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