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Abstract Picture

Gerhard Richter

Abstract Picture

Gerhard Richter
  • Original Title: Abstraktes Bild
  • Date: 1994
  • Style: Abstract Expressionism
  • Genre: abstract
  • Media: oil, canvas
  • Location: Tate Modern, London, UK
  • Dimensions: 225 x 220 cm
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In a series of completely abstract works of the early 1990s, Richter challenges the eye of the viewer to detect anything in the field of vision other than the pure elements of his art: color, gesture, the layering of pasty materials, and the artist's impersonal raking of these concoctions in various ways that allow chance combinations to emerge from the surface. Richter suggests only a shallow space akin to that of a mirror. The viewer is finally coaxed to set aside all searches for "content" that might originate from outside these narrow parameters and find satisfaction in the object's beauty in and of itself, as though one were relishing a fine textile. One thus appreciates the numerous colors and transitions that occur in this painting, many having been created outside the complete control of the artist much as nature often creates wondrous optical pleasures partly by design, and partly by accident.

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Gerhard Richter Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works | The Art Story: www.theartstory.org
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