Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter is a well known painter who does not really have a particular style. He has however, mastered the technique of blurring to create a variety of effects from motion, space, softness, and depth. I was first introduced to Richter in my painting class when we were looking at his blurred portraits and learning his technique of blurring. I looked through his paintings of flowers and landscapes and thought they applied to our drawing class. Even though Richter does not focus on cluttered and complex space, he is able to take a delicate forms like flowers and plants and give them depth, and a three dimensional look to them perfectly. Richter also has many landscape paintings in which he has emphasized the space with atmospheric perspective. By blurring his forms, Richter creates a focused point in which the eye is drawn into and the rest of the space is interpreted as forms in the distance or very close in the foreground. When you draw something from life you tend to draw everything in focus and i think as an artist it is important to be able to see the difference between what your eye can see and focus on and looking at everything as in focus. With the assignment due this week, blurring objects in the distance or giving them a saturated color or lighter lines can give the illusion of space and depth and hopefully can create the same effects Gerhard Richter makes so well.