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Films to Buy
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- A Mental State*
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- The Reality of Karel Appel*
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The Reality of Karel Appel
15 minutes, color, age range: 13 - adult, #596
Karel Appel Figurative Calligraphy
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.
For more information see section 14
Credits
Director: Jan Vrijman
Awards
Golden Bear, Berlin
Gran Premio, Bergamo
Silver Medal, Barcelona
Silver Medal, La Felguera
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