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if it goes well, dedicate an abstract picture." In the following work steps, he repeatedly painted over the pictures, scraped off paint, reapplied gray, brown, black and white, as well as red and green, until the original pictures had completely disappeared under an abstract-looking coating. "This process is nothing unusual, so paint objectively and end up abstract." He changed the original name -
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Richter first transferred the photos onto canvas with a brush, an attempt that, in his opinion, failed. "There are photos that I could only make into bad pictures if I copied them. And these four photos are so good that I can only leave them as is. You can describe them or dedicate music to them or,
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since 31 March 2023 as part of the
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in the last they predominate in comparison to the red. The pictures are large, even huge, they create a mood, and it is dark." "The pictures have an effect with the structures that intertwine horizontally and vertically darker than many of
Richter's other squeegee paintings."
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