The 60 Artworks of Gerhard Richter and ...

Introduction to Abstract Expressionism and Gerhard Richter

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'For most of his career, Richter avoided political motifs in his work. A notable exception is the series October 18, 1977, in which he depicts radical Baader-Meinhof terrorists who inexplicably died in jail (it remains unclear to this day whether these young radicals committed suicide or were murder...

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Introduction to Gerhard Richter and Abstract Art

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Displayed in the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., “Abstract Painting 780-1” was a departure from Richter’s abstract paintings in grey-textured monochrome. Employing one of his non-conventional methods, he used squeegees on technicolour covered canvases to spread the colours all across. Rich...

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'In 1976, Richter first employed the term ''Abstract Painting'' as a formal title for many of his works, such as this example. Cool tones of purple and blue create a hazy, shallow atmospheric perspective. The composition is structured with geometric shapes and lines that might at first appear as fra...

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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 variou...

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'Clouds is an example of how Richter frequently alternates between realist and abstract styles in various series of work, as well as on a single canvas. In this instance, even the title bears an ambiguous relation to the entire composition. In the lower region of the canvas, for instance, Richter su...

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Gerhard Richter started making large abstract paintings in the 1970s, they were rough, sketchy and had a blurring effect. The paint was applied with a brush but was also applied in different ways, either smeared, dripped or rubbed with brushes, knives or other materials. Although the paintings Abstr...

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