By looking at the work of Gerhard Richter
and his series of Cage paintings, I have been able to try new ways of painting
and mark making to help develop my practical work.
The use of multiple layers of paint was an
aspect I had tried to recreate on Photoshop, but the way Richter combines
unconventional painting materials with huge amounts of oil paints creates
layers and textures, which I was just not able to portray on screen. The pace
in his paintings creates a sense of energy, and with hints of brights appearing
through a subtler colour palette, I have tried to use his style to help give my
paintings a better sense of movement, energy and urban city life.
Gerhard Richter
I felt painting on a larger scale with
unusual materials helped to free me up and experiment in many ways. The way the
colours blended together in my own paintings started to give me the ideas I had
needed to translate into my weave samples. The lines created horizontally and
vertically in Richter’s paintings contain many colours although blurred
together, and this was something that I think I have managed to capture in my
own work. The idea of a line or a piece of yarn containing many colours to
depict a sense of energy is something that I have gained through development
from my initial collages to the paintings I have recently produced through
investigating the work of Gerhard Richter.
Kottke.org (2008) At the Tate Modern. [Online image] [Accessed on 15th February 2014] <http://kottke.org/tag/gerhardrichter>