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Gerhard Richter with his work<\/p><\/div>\n

The shot of these two huge abstracts, with Gerhard Richter dwarfed by his work while posing in the shaft of light, appeared on Instagram at abstrac.ted. I can\u2019t find anything quite like them in the compendium of Richter\u2019s work over the decades at Gerhard Richter.<\/span><\/a> I\u2019m wondering if this means he has recently completed these, and if so, it\u2019s an interesting shift in his work. With the exception of a series he did in 2005, all entitled Forest<\/i>, these two paintings distinguish themselves from almost all of his earlier, extremely flat<\/span><\/p>\n

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Forest<\/p><\/div>\n

abstracts, obedient to Clement Greenberg\u2019s advocacy of flatness as painting\u2019s most essential, defining characteristic–what, in retrospect, seems like either the silliest or the most obvious proposition about art ever to be embraced in such a hugely influential way. In the bulk of his abstract paintings, Richter experiments with the effects he can get by using large amounts of multiple colors, smearing, masking, scraping, scumbling (on a large scale) one color into another in various ways. In the earlier work, he achieves suggestive effects of luminosity and hints of depth\u2014so that some areas of paint seem to recede to an area just behind the surface. In the Forest<\/i> series, this is more pronounced: you can discern what might be tree trunks in a foreground, or an underwater scene with tiers of aquatic plant life, against an indeterminate soup behind them, in a way that feels slightly Klee-like. Landscapes blur into twilight. But in this pair of huge canvases, the sense of space is vast, giving a sense of receding vistas. Light seems to shoot down through layers of foliage or enormous skylights, and the vertical shafts to the left in each canvas suggest buildings, or maybe the geometric angles of Richter’s studio itself. In the painting on the left, down in the lower right corner, the rectangular area of softened light seems like a window that offers a glow reaching the viewer from miles away. More than most of his abstraction in the past, this work from Richter, if it\u2019s recent, gives reason to hope he\u2019s trying to find a closer, expressionist truce between abstraction and his celebrated genius as a realist. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The shot of these two huge abstracts, with Gerhard Richter dwarfed by his work while posing in the shaft of light, appeared on Instagram at abstrac.ted. I can\u2019t find anything quite like them in the compendium of Richter\u2019s work over the decades at Gerhard Richter. I\u2019m wondering if this means he has recently completed these, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nAbstract representation - represent<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=9160\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abstract representation - represent\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The shot of these two huge abstracts, with Gerhard Richter dwarfed by his work while posing in the shaft of light, appeared on Instagram at abstrac.ted. 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