I had previously blogged about how I found the individual
variation between different bottles of a couple of cases of this wine to be
incredibly large; now I shall write about the label, something which I had
started many moons ago, with the nude on the 1993 label. This label was
designed by Karel Appel, an avant garde Dutch artist and one of the founders of
the COBRA movement. His art generated such controversy that he moved to
Paris. Working mainly on paintings, drawings, print-making and some
sculpture, he also explored textiles stained glass and even teamed
up with Japanese choreographer Min Tanaka in 1987 to produce "Can We Dance
a Landscape?" for the Opera Comique in Paris, which got a mixed reception.
He famously declared that "If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we
live in a barbarous age".
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