Van de Schoonheid en de Troost
Season 1, Episode 8: You Are There and You Are Not: Karel Appel
Select Source
Interview with Karel Appel, Dutch painter. Appel has specially selected eight of his paintings for the interview as symbols of beauty and comfort. Appel talks about these eight paintings, his way of working, his studios, mixing different colors of paint, the color red, his birthplace Amsterdam, his youth, wandering the streets in big cities at night, being deeply affected by objects or events, the work of Rembrandt and Van Gogh and the death of his wife. In addition, at Kayzer's request, he reads one of his poems about Amsterdam (from his poetry collection 'Ode aan het rood').
All Episodes - Season 1
Episode 1
Fathers Roses: Wole Soyinka
Episode 2
Homecoming: Roger Scruton
Episode 3
Alone on the mountain: Jane Goodall
Episode 4
The Code of Pasternak: George Steiner
Episode 5
The End of the Thirteenth: Vladimir Ashkenazy
Episode 6
Thor, Newton, Einstein: Steven Weinberg
Episode 7
Guilt: Martha Nussbaum
Episode 8
You Are There and You Are Not: Karel Appel
Episode 9
The Greatest Mystery Is Not the Universe: Edward Witten
Episode 10
Dear Mother: Elizabeth Loftus
Episode 11
When My Father Was Still Big: Rutger Kopland
Episode 12
What's Mary Doing in the Cave: Gary Lynch
Episode 13
John the Myth: Stephen Jay Gould
Episode 14
The Poetics of the Album: Dubravka Ugrešić
Episode 15
Ugly Ears: Simon Schama
Episode 16
True Love Gives Trust: Catherine Bott
Episode 17
Innocence?: John M. Coetzee
Episode 18
The Unanswered Question: Richard Dufallo
Episode 19
After the Death of Sophia Loren?: Leon Lederman
Episode 20
Greetings from Medemblik: Rudi Fuchs
Episode 21
Don't Look Back: Tatjana Tolstaja
Episode 22
Freeman Dyson
Episode 23
Other States of Consciousness: Richard Rorty
Episode 24
Scoundrel: Györgi Konrád
Episode 25
Three Times Australia: Germaine Greer
Episode 26
The Ninth: Yehudi Menuhin
Episode 27
The Gathering