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Questioning Children

Appel, Karel
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Vragende kinderen
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/24030
Description
Appel prepared the surface of Questioning Children by nailing discarded pieces of wood to an old window shutter. The vibrant colours and roughly-painted figures recall the spontaneity of children’s art. CoBrA artists believed that such unconventional sources could re-invigorate post-war culture. In the same year Appel also used the title Questioning Children for a controversial mural at the Town Hall in Amsterdam, which was condemned as incomprehensible, and covered over with wallpaper. There is a note of tragedy in these works as the Dutch title also means 'begging children' and evokes scenes of poverty that Appel had witnessed in post-war Germany.
 
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Type of Work
Assemblage (Sculpture); Painting
Subject
Children's art, Children, Hunger, Outsider art, Pleading (Begging), Cobra (Association), Art, Modern --20th century, World War, 1939-1945 --Art and the war, Painting, Dutch --20th century, Sculpture, Dutch --20th century
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