Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer and Lucien Freud are/were plenty talented, Jim. You'd probably love Richter's photographic paintings like Lesende. https://uploads2.wikiart.org/images/gerhard-richter/reading.jpg!Blog.jpg
Brad, if a painting looks and feels exactly like a photograph, it's a failed painting (*). Why paint if your result is indistinguishable from a photo? Might as well use a camera.
(* Unless your goal was trompe l'oeil of a photograph, of course. Which is a fairly limited thing in painting spectrum.)
Yet another magnificent painter from the past, sadly fallen into near obscurity, who is more talented than any famous painter working today.
ReplyDeleteGerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer and Lucien Freud are/were plenty talented, Jim. You'd probably love Richter's photographic paintings like Lesende. https://uploads2.wikiart.org/images/gerhard-richter/reading.jpg!Blog.jpg
DeleteI'm not happy to point out typos, but there is one in the title.
ReplyDelete'Tsvet' is how Slavs pronounce the word that means "flower," so it's a portrait of Mr. Flower.
Brad, if a painting looks and feels exactly like a photograph, it's a failed painting (*). Why paint if your result is indistinguishable from a photo? Might as well use a camera.
ReplyDelete(* Unless your goal was trompe l'oeil of a photograph, of course. Which is a fairly limited thing in painting spectrum.)
Read up on Richter. If you know enough about art to give this canned response you should be able to see why what he's doing has value.
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