The notoriously secretive creative process of reclusive German artist Gerhard Richter is exposed in filmmaker Corinna Belz’s new fly-on-the-wall documentary, Gerhard Richter Painting. Belz spent three years as an observer in Richter’s Cologne studio capturing mesmerizing footage of the artist producing his radical abstract works. As we witness him mixing layer upon layer of bold primary colors, smearing the wet paint with a giant squeegee and scraping at the surfaces of the canvases, Richter’s masterpieces appear before our eyes.Read more at NOWNESS
Monday, June 18, 2012
Gerhard Richter Painting
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That is amazing. I'm surprised that I truly do like the finished paintings...thinking beforehand that using a 'giant squeegee' would be just a gimmick.
ReplyDeletePerhaps almost as incredible is spending three years documenting someone's work.
I saw some of Richter's modern paintings at Tate Modern in London and they were very powerful. It's interesting to see the work in process.
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