Karel Appel

Dutch
(1921–2006)

Lenten Masks
1969

Lithograph
28 x 32.25 in.
Museum Permanent Collection
1984.273

• abstract - Genre of visual arts in which figurative subjects or other forms are simplified or changed in their representation so that they do not portray a recognizable person, object, thing, etc.; may reference an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object. For the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances, prefer "abstraction." For 20th-century art styles that were a reaction against the traditional European conception of art as the imitation of nature, use "Abstract (fine arts style)."
• abstract expressionism
• blue
• CoBra - Refers to the highly expressionistic style inspired by children's art characteristic of a group formed in 1948 by artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam.
• face
• gray
• green
• Masks
• orange
• red
• teal
• yellow