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Moritz

Gerhard Richter

Moritz

Gerhard Richter
  • Date: 2000
  • Style: New European Painting
  • Genre: figurative
  • Media: oil, canvas
  • Location: De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands
  • Dimensions: 62 x 52 cm
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Ostensibly a painting of his young son, Mortiz exemplifies Richter's affinity for striking a tense balance between abstraction and figuration. This painting is a hybrid, seemingly fluctuating between two contrasting, unfinished areas, one section realistically rendered (in part harking back to Richter's Social Realist education), the other fading off into ethereal "white noise." Mortiz is reminiscent of Andy Warhol's combination of appropriated imagery and painted silkscreen techniques; a hazy glow seemingly emanates from the young boy, thus providing a powerful contrast to the material reality of the painted surface.

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