Frases de Karel Appel

Christiaan Karel Appel, conhecido como Karel Appel foi um pintor, designer, artista gráfico, escritor e escultor neerlandês e co-fundador do grupo CoBrA, em 1948.Estudou na Rijksakademie van Bee hldende Kunsten , onde se tornou amigo de Guillaume Corneille, seu futuro companheiro no CoBrA.

Appel viveu em Paris, a partir do início da década de 1950; em Nova Iorque, na década seguinte, na Itália e na Suíça, onde faleceu.

Appel pintou também retratos de músicos de jazz e executou vários trabalhos públicos, incluindo um mural na sede da UNESCO em Paris.

Seus primeiros trabalhos lembram a pintura do realista neerlandês George Hendrik Breitner , porém, já à época da Segunda Guerra Mundial, volta-se para o Expressionismo alemão e principalmente para o trabalho de van Gogh.

Há um ponto de inflexão no estilo de Appel, por volta de 1945, quando encontra inspiração na Escola de Paris, particularmente em Matisse, Jean Dubuffet e Picasso; essa influência, que deverá persistir até 1948, pode ser observada, por exemplo, em uma série de esculturas de gesso dessa época.

A partir de 1947, seu colorido universo pessoal será constituído de seres simples, infantis e animais amistosos, que povoam suas pinturas, desenhos, esculturas de madeira pintada. Seu senso de humor chega ao ápice em grotescas montagens, relevos em madeira e pinturas como Hip, Hip, Hooray . Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Abril 1921 – 3. Maio 2006
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Karel Appel: Frases em inglês

“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)