In 1957, Appel traveled the U.S. and Mexico, where he painted portraits of jazz musicians - Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Koutney Basil and Sarah Vaughn.
After returning to Europe, is working on several large murals hakahnyh plants.
In 1961 niderladnsky director Jan Vriman the movie "Reality of Karel Appel" about the life and work of the artist in Paris.
In 1963, Appel worked alternately in Paris and Rome. To this period belong his experiments with the inclusion of real objects in the painting, which led to the creation of assemblages, executed in mixed tehznike, and subsequently, his polychrome sculpture (1965). Appeal to the landscape is the second important element of his work this time.
In the years 1969-71. he created a large series of sculptures of painted wood, which he called "psychological relief-portraits, and then made his first large sculpture made of aluminum.
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