About this artwork
By applying pigment to the surface of a photograph, Gerhard Richter questions the objective reality that it seems to document. Through strokes of paint, we see glimpses of the view lying underneath and recognize the rhythmic pattern of a rippling water surface. However, the acrylic paint interferes with our perception of an illusory three-dimensional space. The painterly, multicolored impasto, juxtaposed against the smooth, finished, monochromatic image, draws attention to the photograph as a two-dimensional reproduction, stressing the photograph’s artifice.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Gerhard Richter
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Title
- 24-3-86
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Place
- Germany (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- Made 1986
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Medium
- Oil paint over a silver gelatin print
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Dimensions
- 79.7 × 99.5 cm (31 7/16 × 39 3/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by Adele and Willard Gidwitz
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Reference Number
- 1989.23
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Copyright
- © Gerhard Richter
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