I find Gerhard's work curiously compelling. I want to know the story behind the paint, but I'm drawn to the abstraction. I asses the photographs as mysterious, like Gerhard was capturing a moment of his world and as soon as he captured this moment things immediately changed. Distorting them, creating an unpredictable abstraction of life. Portraying the person as obsolete, enhanced, burdened..etc. with the qualities of the paint.
Richter applies the paint with a squeegee. He is going after a machine like quality in which his hand our brush mark is not present in this piece. There is a good film on Netflix about him.
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I like this mysterious feeling of this photo, and I am curious that why he combined these images together. It's interesting!
ReplyDeleteI like this notion that Richter is "capturing a moment of his world and as soon as he captured this moment things immediately changed". The sense of motion in much of this work does imply this sentiment.
ReplyDeleteWhat Andre says is also important - which is that what he is trying to convey with the paint isn't just personalizing the machine (as so many photo realist painters attempt to do) it goes deeper than those questions....in allowing the personal to become mechanical.
THanks!