Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden in 1932.During the early sixties Richter met and began to work with artists such as Sigmar Polke, Konrad Fischer-Lueg and Georg Baselitz. Their work, and Richter's in particular, began to have an impact in Germany, and eventually international art circles.
Atlas Sheet 15, 1964
He believed that paintings should focus on the image rather than the reference, the visual rather than the statement. He wanted to find a new way of painting that would not be constricting. Richter emerged from the group to become one of the most sought after contemporary artists in the world. His work is regularly sold at auction, sometimes for millions.overpainted photograph
beauty in the ordinary
Unlike American artists Richter wasn't interested in the purity of art. Idealism had disillusioned him from an early age. Instead he painted images without glory; images that rendered the ridiculous, ordinary; the tragic, ordinary; the beautiful, ordinary. Throughout his career Richter has shrunk from giving a psychological insight into his art, leaving his admirers and critics guessing and at times confused. According to him, his work forms from structures and ideas that surround him, nothing more profound than that.
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Today i am inspired by Gerhard Richter,i am about to full of use my photographs ,transform to a piece of artwork,the outcome gonna be diffrent than before,i would use sepia colour as my work's background,first layer is photograph, then painting,mixed media....etc,dont think ,just do it!
