"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."
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Karel Appel, (before 2004); as quoted in 'Karel Appel, Dutch Expressionist Painter, Dies at 85', by Margalit Fox, in The New York Times (9 May 2006)
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COBRA (art movement)
COBRA or Cobra, often stylized as CoBrA, was a European avant-garde movement active from 1948 to 1951. The name was coined in 1948 by Christian Dotremont from the initials of the members' home countries' capital cities: Copenhagen (Co), Brussels (Br), Amsterdam (A).
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