Oil paint on canvas
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Abstract Painting 8093
ARTIST ROOMS
Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008
abstraction
blur
colour
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
gestural
non-representational
painting oil paint canvas
28 August 2009 – 15 November 2009
2009-11-15
28 August 2009 – 15 November 2009
2009-11-15
2009-08-28
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (Middlesbrough, UK)
http://www.visitmima.com/
2009-08-28
Gerhard Richter: Modern Times
Loan-out
2 October 2010 – 27 February 2011
2011-02-27
2 October 2010 – 27 February 2011
2011-02-27
2010-10-02
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery (Leicester, UK)
http://www.leicestermuseums.ac.uk
2010-10-02
ARTIST ROOMS 2010: Gerhard Richter
Loan-out
6 September 2014 – 6 December 2014
2014-12-06
6 September 2014 – 6 December 2014
2014-12-06
2014-09-06
Dick Institute (Kilmarnock, UK)
http://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/comser/arts_museums/venues.asp
2014-09-06
ARTIST ROOMS 2014: Gerhard Richter
Loan-out
26 September 2015 – 16 January 2016
2016-01-16
26 September 2015 – 16 January 2016
2016-01-16
2015-09-26
The Box (Plymouth, UK)
2015-09-26
ARTIST ROOMS 2015: Gerhard Richter
Loan-out
12 May 2018 – 18 August 2018
2018-08-18
12 May 2018 – 18 August 2018
2018-08-18
2018-05-12
John Hansard Gallery (Southampton, UK)
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~hansard/
2018-05-12
ARTIST ROOMS 2017: Gerhard Richter
Loan-out
Abstract Painting (809-3)
support: 2300 × 2048 × 75 mm
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Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the <a href="/search?gid=999999967" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">National Heritage Memorial Fund</a> and the <a href="/search?gid=999999968" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Art Fund</a> 2008
<p>From the mid 1980s, Richter began to use a home-made squeegee to rub and scrape the paint that he had applied in large bands across his canvases. This spread the paint over the surface and integrated the various colours with each other. In the 1990s the artist began to run his squeegee up and down the canvas in an ordered fashion to produce vertical columns that take on the look of a wall of planks. 'Abstraktes Bild (809-3)' is typical of these paintings. One effect of the use of the squeegee was to create a blurring of one area of colour into another – similar to the blurring in Richter’s earlier photo-paintings – so that one has the feeling of looking at an out of focus image, that lies tantalisingly beyond decipherment.</p>

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abstraction blur colour emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities gestural non-representational