Richter Gerhard
(February 9, 1932 - ) |
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photo-painting Art Work
| Name: |
Richter Gerhard |
| Gender: |
Male |
| Place of Birth: |
Dresden, Germany |
| Nationality: |
German |
| Birth: |
February 9, 1932 |
| Death: |
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| Website: |
http://www.gerhard-richter.com/ |
| Past Auctions: |
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Quick Facts
| Known For: |
photo-painting |
| Medium: |
painting |
| Method: |
blurring, scraping paint |
| Style: |
Abstraction |
| Fine Art Profession(s): |
Painter
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Biography
| Richter has stated that the use of photographic imagery as a starting point for his early paintings resulted from an attempt to escape the complicated process of deciding what to paint, along with the critical and theoretical implications accompanying such decisions within the context of a modernist discourse. To achieve this, Richter began amassing photos from magazines, books, etc, many of which became the subject matter of his early photography-based paintings. Thus the Atlas was born; a collection of thousands of photographs, and cropped magazine and newspaper images, compiled in a single volume. |
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