Reality of Karel Appel

Year Published: 1962

Complete Record: French streets Dutch artist Music by Karel Appel and Dizzy Gillespie Man creating modern art painting shots of modern art paintings Shots of trains, market, cemetery, fashion show, junkyard The reality of the painter Karel Appel is an overcrowded, possessed and frantic world, a barbaric age in which he can only paint as a barbarian - as he says in this film. His paintings are gaudy, his colors vivid, and he slaps them on the canvas as if in a duel, using his brushes, paints, putty-knife and his hands as weapons.