Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richteris a German visual artist. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. His art follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artist's obligation to maintain a single cohesive style...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth9 February 1932
CountryGermany
effort painting blind
Painting is consequently an almost blind, desperate effort, like that of a person abandoned, helpless, in totally incomprehensible surroundings.
almost art general good painting
Good art in general aspires to something, as a good painting aspires to something, almost spiritual or holy.
art general great heir painting places rich
I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which we have lost, but which places obligations on us.
created dare great paintings understand work
I don't dare to think my paintings are great. I can't understand the arrogance of someone saying, 'I have created a big, important work.'
painting function painter
The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no longer recalls any object, this artificially produced semblance functions only because it is scrutinized for likeness to a familiar - that is, object-related - semblance.
art here-and-there painting
They are specific places I have discovered here and there when I am on the road to take photos. I go especially to take photos.
art believe painting
Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.
information painting murder
The photograph is the only picture that can truly convey information, even if it is technically faulty and the object can barely be identified. A painting of a murder is of no interest whatever; but a photograph of a murder fascinates everyone.
spirit painting mood
Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.
painting wiser
My paintings are wiser than I am.
style painting photograph
I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings. (Because style is violent, and I am not violent.)
art trying painting
I'm trying to paint a picture of what I have seen and what moved me, as well as I can. That's all.
art revolution painting
Not the victims of any specific ideology of the left or of the right, but of the ideological posture as such. This has to do with the everlasting human dilemma in general: to work for a revolution and fail...
differences landscape abstract-painting
Experience has proved that there is no difference between a so-called realist painting - of a landscape, for example - and an abstract painting. They both have more or less the same effect on the observer.