Gerhard Richter

[TheLaura1655]

There is an enigmatic serenity in his expression. A wholeness and completeness in his 'self'. This is all that which makes him an outstanding painter,

[afaf233]

@TheLaura1655 total fraud

[TheLaura1655]

What kind of paint is this. Is it acrylic or oil. Seems to come in large quantities. Cannot find that where I live in Sweden. Where can I find this in Europe.? Also the type f polymer tool used.

[quelbop]

Laura-turning the volume off as you suggest would wipe out the music (good) but also wipe out the interesting things which Richter has to say (bad) as this video is an interview. Thanks for the idea :-)

[TheLaura1655]

@quelbop your welcome

[TheLaura1655]

These paintings are fantastic. I attempted paintint this way some years ago with metal decorting tools but they were not flexible enough and of course too small. Are your tools made of a thin flexible steel attached a light wood.?

[TheLaura1655]

You cannot appreciate the music because you are just that as you describe it

[quelbop]

The music is really terrible-insipid rubbish.

[TheLaura1655]

@quelbop turn off the volume twit!!

[Syndra]

Is there anywhere I can find this interview /video WITHOUT the music?

[yogasanasbudapest]

Since Duchamp...painting is dead.

[TheParanoidAndroid1]

@yogasanasbudapest No, it's not, Richter knows it isn't, so do Elizabeth Peyton and Jenny Saville. Granted, painting is due a renaissance, but it's not dead. Not yet.

[jesusonamotorbike]

i have met a a few of the dot painters - all girls, students... sad times we are living in.

[misternylon]

Daniel Richter ist einen die Hamburger KuntS! or should that be Kunst? in die kunsthalle.

Hamburgerhalle.

[jesusonamotorbike]

abstract painting is a cul-de-sac of banality and masturbation so stop it you naughty man

[KEPHALLE]

@jesusonamotorbike OH.MY.GOD. art-wise you're the most irresponsibly ignorant person i read something from. shut the fuck up if you just cannot understand.

[jesusonamotorbike]

@KEPHALLE i suggest you read Who Paid the Piper?: CIA and the Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders and learn the involvement of your government had on using Abstract Expressionism, taste makers. I assume that your are yankkk, because you lack irony and your are aggressive and rude.

[KEPHALLE]

@jesusonamotorbike wrong, and wrong. i'm not american, or a "yank", as you might say. apparently CIA supported feminism too, that doesn't mean abstract art is a fraud, since the evolution of painting from the late 19th century led to abstractism, wich was born primarily in Europe! plus most of the New York School were of european origins or directly emigrated from Europe to USA. i didn't read that book, but from what you told me, it seems a pile of speculations based on some more speculations.

[jesusonamotorbike]

it looks like damien hirst is morphing into richer

[KEPHALLE]

@jesusonamotorbike or a Richter wannabe, since Hirst hardly can hold a brush in his hands.

[DemelzaKooij]

The music is way too loud.

Also, the choice of music is cheesy and renders the film unprofessional.

Sorry I have to say this, but it doesn't pay much tribute to this fantastic artist.

[tooncappuyns]

I feel like biting the critic's nose, is the exact shape of a strawberry! Or the strawberries i got this morning have the shape of an art historian's nose; the truth is probably in the middle

[bluegoose555]

please excuse the typo..Rauch

[bluegoose555]

have a look at neo rausch on youtube by fuzzyjazz...a very simple and  obvious refutation of this nonsense about painting being dead in principle...Marcel Duchamp my ass..his problem was he couldn't paint...Art has nothing to do with money...never did.. never will

[Oilbeefooked]

the music track if far too loud. makes the talking unintelligible.

[landinggallery]

It is unusual to have an Art Museum accept and canonize an artist who has such a broad range in his work. It's great for the Art World to be open to a more free and multi directional approach. There's no need to pigeon hole Artists and restrict them from experimentation and change. Bravo for the courage and humanity to show such an exhibit. It goes to show what talent, humility, dedication and perseverance can accomplish.

[earinsound]

@landinggallery

i think it has more to do with art world fame, status, and sales... from my personal experience the "art world" is fickle and generally only interested in works that fall within its narrow discourse.

[Xaffax]

The nice thing about Richter , Polke and Kiefer is that they produced some of the finest paintings of the 20th century after "the death of painting."

(The piano music doesn't bother me, thank god it's not the atonal violin creaking that usually accompanies visual art documentaries.)

[vuhldis]

at least he knows painting died in principle and is meant for rich fucks who can afford them .

[MrDadada2424]

great.

ANDREA SANA . com

[norsefly1]

this music is killing me

[bagoona]

@norsefly1 RIP

[ludalo]

painting is not dead Sr. thank to you it's alive.

[galerieKNOXmal]

RICHTER gehört zu den säulen der wiedergeburt des REALISMUS und die vermischung mit der ABSTRAKTION.

[hahli1994]

Who is the woman speaking, around 3:19?

[rayolacer]

urgh fuck that piano. 

[AJchannel39]

"Das Ganze läuft ja so unbewusst ab, dass ich das Ding auch nicht erklären kann. Ich weiß das ja nicht was ich tue und das muss auch so sein. Wenn ich es wüsste und wenn ich es planen würde, dann ist es sowieso unsinnig. Dann könnte man es sich ja ausdenken!" G.R.

G.R. wirkt so herrlich normal und mit einer so tiefen Ruhe, wo kommen all diese Bilder bloß her?

[Carloforever1]

Herzlichen Dank für diesen Beitrag, endlich sehe ich G.R. einmal.....thank you very much for this......until today I solely love his work...

[Roojus]

who is the gentleman who speaks starting 1:52?

[808k0PP]

@Roojus it's Armin Zweite. A well known german art historican

[Biofishable]

His work matches his persona. I love this stuff. I can't believe I hadn't heard of him.

[tomtrooper]

best painter on the planet

[Carloforever1]

@tomtrooper Das finde ich auch...I´m with You........

[genieoner]

@tomtrooper Get serious man, silly thing to say..X-D

[acapeson]

thank you for posting this

[Audiofreund2]

die bauernmusik nervt!

[tjhurl85]

Amazing body of work by Richter and nice to see a smile from him. Most artists appear too serious in their interviews. I like his abstract paintings they convey more meaning and representation than his realist works.

[seth2342]

@tjhurl85 "they convey more meaning and representation than his realist works." That's a pretty subjective statement. I think they say less which is what he intended, to show that there is no where else to go in abstraction.

[StyleViewOrg]

Thank you! Seeing the works of Gerhardt Richter, a living genius, is sheer joy and a visual fiest! Each painting is like a symphony-rich, mulilayered and powerful.

[seth2342]

@StyleViewOrg totally agree. well said.

[xwaystranger]

May Painters and Painting NEVER DIE. It is the process, the movement of the hand and eye. Many painters today...like Murakami and his style support the ROBOTS...and thereby are missing the whole effect of hands-on INTENTION> And the audience is UNABLE to feel anything but the Technique.

[unicathable]

....ich habe bis dahin nicht gewusst, dass er die gleiche tiefgründige Ausstrahlung hat wie seine Bilder.... und das er unbewußt malt.

Finde ich einfach aufbauend:)

[Audiofreund2]

@unicathable

vorsicht , er arbeitet nicht unbewusst, sondern bewusstlos, sagt er. das ist etwas anderes.

[pjh206]

gerhard richter: 5 ideas.

[seth2342]

@pjh206 Read a fucking book you naive cube.

[ilovesnowflakes]

... ein großer Künstler mit intelligenten Worten, ich liebe seine Arbeit, nur schrecklich, dass irgendwer zuerst diese grauenhafte Klavieruntermalung wählen musste :-)