"Violence allows Appel to lose 'nothing' of the 'whole'; to stop his painting only after all the leaps of the act have crossed it."
— Karel Appel

January 1, 1970

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SculptorsPainters from the NetherlandsPeople from Amsterdam
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Dotremont, 1958; in La jeune Ecole de Paris, Jean-Clarence Lambert; Le Musée de Poche, Paris, 1958; as quoted in (MR1, 127); 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. 103