This has to be one of my favourite pieces from Richter. I have therefore, decided to analyse it. The vital question is what could I ask the artist about this piece? I would have to ask is 'what was his inspiration for this picture?' I know that he painted and took many photos of his daughter, in which he used, but I want to know if this is his daughter and why would he choose to paint over her face? I feel that the skills needed to be able to work in this style are being able to create similar colours to what Richter uses and being able to create the texture that he produces within many of his pieces. By looking at the way Richter creates texture, will highly benefit my work, I will be able to create different marks over my photographers and within my work and it enables me to make my work indistinct, something that I was struggling with before I discovered Richter's work. From looking at Richter's official website, I found that the title for this piece simply was "9.1.89". This was where Richter was bringing together his love for photos and his love for abstract styles to create these photos. I personally believe that this was date of the photograph being taken, this may have been a significant period within Richter life therefore he wanted to capture. However, since there is a lot of paint covering the photograph, it could suggest that it was a bad period of time for Richter. Maybe he wanted to remember the bad period of time but then move on from it by covering parts of it up with paint, to change the whole atmosphere of the photograph. I feel that this piece does have a personal meaning to me, the way Richter has almost covered parts up to forget things is very relevant within my life and many other peoples life too. We all have things we want to forget and I feel that this piece represents moving on. Leaving behind bad memories and looking forward to creating new, better ones. If I had been asked to re-title this piece I would definitely use the phrase "to leave behind". Whilst I could be completely wrong about why this piece has been created, I would still use what I personally feel about it to name it. Produced in 1989, this was a very relevant year for Richter. A year prior to this Richter had created "Betty" a stunning portrait of his daughter. In addition to that Richter was becoming very well known among the art circuit and was one of the most popular artists within Germany. No other artist were involved within the creation of this piece.
The scale of this piece is 10.5 x 14.7 cm, so a slightly larger sized photograph. I feel that the scale is important to look at when studying an artists work. Richter could have blow these photos up to be huge, the size of a wall, but he kept them exactly how they were. This may have been because Richter was simply experimenting with these photos, I know that around 700 of these were produced therefore Richter had no interest in making them larger. I think that when I am starting to experiment with photographs, I will keep the size the same until I find one that I really like and know that I want to further develop, I will then look at changing the sizing around. By that I mean to maybe zoom in one parts and closely look at making marks, or I could look at enlarging the photos so I could make larger expressive marks across the face of the photo then slowly start to scratch into the photo. The material used within this piece is simply just oil paint and a photograph. I feel that I would start with using oil paint then slowly progress into using different materials. For example, my other artist, Bruce Conner use a variety of materials such a nylon stockings. I think that I could easily incorporate this type of texture into using paint and photographs. By using these different materials it would allow me to take my work into my own direction instead of just sticking very closely to the ideas of the artist. Intense, stunning, fascinating, forgetting and indistinct would be the five words I would use to describe this photo.
Although I am not stating anything about the colour I feel that you could take a lot from these words when actually looking at this piece. The colours within this piece vary from a vibrant red to a deep blue leaving a orangey colour running throughout it. The primary colour within this piece are, red, yellow and blue. They blend together throughout the piece to create an overall orangey red tone. I feel that the tone is significant to the appearance of this piece, the yellow tones that you can see highlight the aspects of the photo and the white print at the top completely changes the tone that is running throughout it. I believe that the line used throughout this piece varies. The way that the paint has been applied shows the way Richter has precisely thought about where the paint has to be placed, but when you look at it, you wouldn't consider that any thought of line has been used at all. This piece looks completely abstract in my opinion but looking closer at it shows Richter's deeper thoughts. This piece piece is 2-D, I feel I can't talk greatly aspect of the piece, I feel that the paint changes the photograph from being 2-D to being 3-D because it adds another layers and element to it. The piece would completely change if the tone, line and colour were changed. I feel that it would no longer have an calm but intriguing atmosphere. I found this piece of work whilst looking throughout Richter's website, where many of his other pieces are displayed. However this one stood out to me the most, I mainly think it is because of the person within the picture. The way there face is covered but not there body is significant to the meaning the behind it. To conclude, I feel that this piece is stunning and it has really helped me to develop my work and where I wanted to take it next.
The scale of this piece is 10.5 x 14.7 cm, so a slightly larger sized photograph. I feel that the scale is important to look at when studying an artists work. Richter could have blow these photos up to be huge, the size of a wall, but he kept them exactly how they were. This may have been because Richter was simply experimenting with these photos, I know that around 700 of these were produced therefore Richter had no interest in making them larger. I think that when I am starting to experiment with photographs, I will keep the size the same until I find one that I really like and know that I want to further develop, I will then look at changing the sizing around. By that I mean to maybe zoom in one parts and closely look at making marks, or I could look at enlarging the photos so I could make larger expressive marks across the face of the photo then slowly start to scratch into the photo. The material used within this piece is simply just oil paint and a photograph. I feel that I would start with using oil paint then slowly progress into using different materials. For example, my other artist, Bruce Conner use a variety of materials such a nylon stockings. I think that I could easily incorporate this type of texture into using paint and photographs. By using these different materials it would allow me to take my work into my own direction instead of just sticking very closely to the ideas of the artist. Intense, stunning, fascinating, forgetting and indistinct would be the five words I would use to describe this photo.
Although I am not stating anything about the colour I feel that you could take a lot from these words when actually looking at this piece. The colours within this piece vary from a vibrant red to a deep blue leaving a orangey colour running throughout it. The primary colour within this piece are, red, yellow and blue. They blend together throughout the piece to create an overall orangey red tone. I feel that the tone is significant to the appearance of this piece, the yellow tones that you can see highlight the aspects of the photo and the white print at the top completely changes the tone that is running throughout it. I believe that the line used throughout this piece varies. The way that the paint has been applied shows the way Richter has precisely thought about where the paint has to be placed, but when you look at it, you wouldn't consider that any thought of line has been used at all. This piece looks completely abstract in my opinion but looking closer at it shows Richter's deeper thoughts. This piece piece is 2-D, I feel I can't talk greatly aspect of the piece, I feel that the paint changes the photograph from being 2-D to being 3-D because it adds another layers and element to it. The piece would completely change if the tone, line and colour were changed. I feel that it would no longer have an calm but intriguing atmosphere. I found this piece of work whilst looking throughout Richter's website, where many of his other pieces are displayed. However this one stood out to me the most, I mainly think it is because of the person within the picture. The way there face is covered but not there body is significant to the meaning the behind it. To conclude, I feel that this piece is stunning and it has really helped me to develop my work and where I wanted to take it next.
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