Gerhard Richter Patterns

Informationen zum Autor Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist, and one of the foremost artists of his generation. Richter has created abstract and photorealistic paintings, alongside photographs and pieces made from glass. Klappentext Documents the author's experiment of taking an image of an original abstract painting and dividing it vertically into two. In this book, each divided part is divided again, mirrored and repeated, producing ever narrower strips, which results in patterns. It includes a total of 238 selected patterns. Vorwort Divided, mirrored, repeated: a limitless sequence created by Gerhard Richter from an original oil painting Zusammenfassung Documents the author's experiment of taking an image of an original abstract painting and dividing it vertically into two. In this book, each divided part is divided again, mirrored and repeated, producing ever narrower strips, which results in patterns. It includes a total of 238 selected patterns.

Product details

• Authors: Gerhard Richter, Richter Gerhard
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2012
• EAN: 9780500093726
• ISBN: 978-0-500-09372-6
• No. of pages: 488
• Weight: 1270 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, History of Art, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Art & design styles: from c 1960, Individual artists, art monographs, Abstract Art;Painting