Junk for Code

Gerhard Richter

Richter has appeared before in junk for code. Then I was a bit dismissive talking about art "not saying anything significant about life anymore. Art is just about the slabs of paint on a canvas---the medium."

Gerhard Richter, Korn, 1982, Oil on canvas, Guggenheim Museum.

There is an article on Richter at Headlight magazine. Richter has its roots in a 1960s critique of consumer culture. So it is probably not an expressive paintings in the shadow of Abstract Expressionism. Still it looks like exploring color and form abstractly. Then again, I have a soft spot for this style of painting.

Now, after dippping into Bataille I'm interpreting these abstractions more along the lines of expressions of controlled frenzy.

Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at December 10, 2003 12:08 AM | TrackBack