Most everything you find on Richter is written in German - I got someone to translate all the information and voila! Enjoy Excellent effort; you must have done considerable research! Gerhard Richter combines abstract and figurative elements in his paintings to express his own perception of reality. I. Michael Danoff, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, says of Richter's paintings: 'Ways of seeing are more certain than what is being seen.' Richter …showed first 75 words of 1016 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1016 total…side. Dividing the painting horizontally, the painting is also balanced by interest. the bottom larger column is balanced by the greater number of forms on the upper half. As enigmatic as the painter himself, the deliberately evasive Abstract Painting resists any one category or label. Richter combines elements from avant-garde and traditional painting styles to produce his own vision of reality a reality that embraces the abstract while utilizing the illusionistic space of realist representation.