Artists - Richter

Gerhard Richter

After recognising Richter as a very relevant artist to my practice I began some in-depth research into the artists work

Each page shows a different detail of one of Richter's famous Abstract Painting's.

So many different textures, colours and ideas

All from one piece, but could all represent themselves as individual pieces. 

begin to look digital

some begin to appear surrealistic, eg a Dali landscape

"it hardly ever works for me to take a photograph in order to use it for a painting. You take a photograph for it's own sake, and then later, if you're lucky, you discover it as the source of a picture."

the collection starts with black and white collected photographs, daily-life, friends, famous figures. At this stage Richter seems to have no pictorial theme. Also collects photos that begin to raise political themes and questions. Pornography, text, landscape. So many different subjects, so none have limited him to stick to that theme. Begins to look at collected photographs as mini collections, overlapping them to create new images.

Elements of collage in his work as he combines the photographs to create new images and ideas. 

Certain intimacy created knowing they were taken from a moment in his life - pictures of wife and child. 

abstract - links to Jason Martin

links to Robert Ryman - white paintings

Blurs and printing errors of processed film photos - like working with film as never really know the outcome

paint behind the painting, changes the effect of the piece. Viewer is now considering the foreground and the background

Experimenting with perspective and geometric shapes

Colour. More abstract