Gerhard Richterさんのイラストまとめ

“Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.”
GR, 1999

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“The idea as a point of departure for the picture: that’s illustration. Conversely, acting and reacting in the absence of an idea leads to forms that can be named and explained, and thus generates the idea. (‘In the beginning was the deed.’)” GR 1986 https://t.co/4bLsltmtfx

“Illusion – or rather appearance, semblance – is the theme of my life. All that is, seems, and is visible to us because we perceive it by the reflected life of semblance. Nothing else is visible.” GR 1989 https://t.co/KPX3qyJxvy

55 years ago, Düsseldorf gallerist Alfred Schmela hosted Richter’s first solo exhibition. Schmela’s enthusiasm for new, exciting art let him promote artists as Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein and Lucio Fontana, turning the Rhineland into a hub of the international art scene.

“Painting is the only positive thing I have. Even if I see everything else negatively, at least in the pictures I can communicate some kind of hope. I can at least carry on.” GR in conversation with Robert Storr, 1996 https://t.co/E8yNFkCbr8

In this captivating portrait, Richter’s oldest daughter Babette is turning away from the viewer, who is left in anticipation for her gaze to return. ‘Betty’ is one of Richter’s most renowned paintings. https://t.co/K2gPBosA4T

Being the subject of Richter’s first edition, German shepherd ‘Wolfi’ was given a special place in Richter’s oeuvre. The artist based this work on a photograph taken from Ema’s family album, his wife at the time. https://t.co/Ni4810XFFD

In 1964 Richter painted his friend Günther Uecker, co-founder of the artist group ZERO. 5 years later the artists collaborated in the project ‘Living in the Museum’ in which they lived, performed and exhibited together at the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden. https://t.co/p2S9ocEisk