tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38446021.post3254693017927389284..comments2024-01-08T00:59:52.091-07:00Comments on muse-ings: Gerhard RichterUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38446021.post-31358725177247441092010-04-21T07:11:35.532-06:002010-04-21T07:11:35.532-06:00I am Flemish, 51 years old and a painter.
I have ...I am Flemish, 51 years old and a painter.<br /><br />I have had my figurative, my abstract period and now I am into something Gerhard Richterian minimalistic fragmentary stuff based on photo's, pics in magazines, postcards and so forth...painted.<br /><br />Me too I like a lot Richter after having being an admirer of van Gogh, Cézanne, Bonnard, Matisse, Morandi, Kirkeby, de Kooning, Rothko. <br /><br />I would like to know which painter(s)has (have) painted in a similar way, iow inspired by fragments of daily life. For me this is a bit Zen.<br /><br />Flemish painters that I know that are influenced by Richter are:<br /><br />http://www.google.be/images?hl=nl&q=luc+tuymans&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=vvPOS4HNNeGhOOKg4LYP&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQsAQwAA<br /><br />http://www.google.be/images?hl=nl&q=yves+beaumont&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=1vPOS-rFLZSBOIWi4N8P&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CB4QsAQwAw<br /><br />PAX,<br />Fred<br /><br />Please let me know on <br />freddy.delameilleure@jongerenwelzijn.beFredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09932577796832645956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38446021.post-27935024421366340542007-08-15T13:16:00.000-06:002007-08-15T13:16:00.000-06:00A couple of years ago, I had the opportunity of se...A couple of years ago, I had the opportunity of seeing a Richter retrospective at the Art Institute in Chicago with my friend Alan Zinn.<BR/><BR/> Mr. Richter gleefully subverts and acknowledges tradition and specially photographic programs. The work can teach us volumes about photography and painting by the interplay of the two. <BR/><BR/> He maintains a precarious, yet brilliantly elegant, loose-tightrope-walker's pendulous balance between intellect and passion, without much restraint for either.<BR/><BR/> For me, the Richter exhibit was more of a revelation, the kind where one approaches a great truth, like a large animal in a dense forest, and are allowed a blinding momentary glimpse of it, something much too bewildering to absorb on the spot, something that plants itself in one's subconscious, germinates and flowers at unexpected times.<BR/><BR/> Richter once again proves that the obvious*, to which most of us are totally desensitized and (mis)spend our lives sleepwalking through, is the last thing we see. <BR/><BR/>--- Luis<BR/><BR/>* ...and I do not mean this in the same sense as Eggleston's "obvious" with which he is at war, but very much in the unbelievable abilities he has to sensitize himself to his everyday surrounding, much like Atget.Luishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14942782882001678270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38446021.post-20299965830242758062007-08-15T08:08:00.000-06:002007-08-15T08:08:00.000-06:00This is the first time I've posted to your blog. I...This is the first time I've posted to your blog. I've been enjoying it for a while now though. I think it's funny that you just posted something on Richter, I posted something about his newest work on <A HREF="http://www.momentismblog.com" REL="nofollow">my blog</A> yesterday. Let me know what you think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com