Quote of the day
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
Karel Appel
Born: April 25, 1921
Died: May 3, 2006 (aged 85)
Bio: Christiaan Karel Appel was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde movement Cobra in 1948.
Known for:
- Questioning Children (1949)
- The Whirling Sun (1966)
- Horse and Flute Player (1951)