Oil paint on canvas
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Abstract Painting Skin 8873
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
emotions, concepts and ideas
formal qualities
irregular forms
monochromatic
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 (Skin) (887-3)
support: 2300 × 2049 × 68 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>After 2000, Richter made a number of works that dealt with scientific phenomena, in particular, with aspects of reality that can’t be seen by the naked eye. This work, which translates as ‘Abstract Painting (Skin)’, deals with the visual patterns that sound vibrations create when brought into proximity to the surface of milk (skin). The actual image derives from experiments carried out in 2000 by the German artist, Carsten Nicolai (born 1965). The repeated pattern of forms, albeit indistinct and out of focus in some areas, is also found in Richter’s later paintings and prints about earth elements, such as silicate and strontium.</p>

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abstraction blur emotions, concepts and ideas formal qualities irregular forms monochromatic non-representational