A hi-rez exploration of Richter's overpainted photographs, including an introduction to his paintings, with lots of original commentary and gorgeous examples of his work.
I just discovered this channel and I’m realizing I’ve never discovered a channel so small that I know for sure will eventually be so big. Huge fan, keep it up!!
Welcome aboard! It's all up to the algorithm. But thanks for the encouraging words. I've got a list of over 50 videos I want to make. The next one on deck is promising to break through the algorithm. CZcams already pulled the plug on this video. Won't make it out of the starting gate. Most my videos have been sandboxed, one way or another.
Nice! I was once an art teacher. I liked to point out that as humans we look for meaning and of course do so when looking at art. As an artist we have different ways of presenting meaning. We could dictate or intimate and suggest. The former is shallow, brief and at worst propaganda. The later is more evocative, lingers and engages. The meaning suggested or hinted may also be present, elusive or ultimately fleeting or absent. What is seen can be powerful. What is unseen can be even more powerful! Whether is distortion, haze, blur or overpainting this can have a more profound impact then that that is clearly delineated as the viewer has to engage, decipher and and eventually let go to experience. It much more rewarding as a viewer.
The art I rail against strongly tends to come out of the "anti-art" tradition, in which case I am actually defending art against an onslaught which has been highly successful.
@@artvsmachine3703 I’ve been reading a lot of your articles, so I picked up on that idea. It’s so strange mocking the idea of art is seen as the greatest art. I’m just happy that there are still people who want to create sincerely.
Thanks. Your presentation of Richter is informative for me because I’ve not been aware of his photography integrated work. I am a painter too. And, believe in the Construct of paint having a myriad possibilities from color.
Before watching the video, I totally thought you were going to hate on this work! Glad to be wrong. It is a great body of his work, which I was completely unaware of. Your work at the end was good, as well. Really makes me want to give this a go with some of my nude photography. Thank you for this!
Wonder why you thought I'd hate on it. Glad you like the work and that it inspired you to perhaps explore the technique yourself. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I've always had an affinity for Richter since my art school days. Although I tend towards graphics, I've used overprinting in lots of my ideas because of the 'happy accidents' that occur. Great channel! Looking forward to further videos after I've checked out your playlist.
I have only been vaguely aware of Richter’s art. Now I will definitely explore it more. Thanks for turning me on to this artist. Terrific work on your part to explore and analyze his works. I especially appreciate the way you look carefully at and describe what is seen visually. Cheers-Greg
Great to see your work at the end of the. You mentioned it in our prior conversation and I was intrigued. I loved the distortions and tripped out randomnesses .
These over painted photos are really stirring, they give me an impression of a memory that's fading but while the details are lost you can see the raw emotion tied to the memory. Like the woman with the baby; it's like the perspective character can't remember what she was wearing or when the baby's face but the orange on her and white on the baby feel like they were remembering how struck they were by the mother's warmth and the baby's innocence and/purity. I know you said Richter is a dispassionate artist but I can't see these images that way. Maybe it has something to do with thinking about why a person would take an "ordinary" photograph in the first place, what specifically were they wanting to remember with it?
Glad you like the series. I say he's dispassionate because of his overall oeuvre which includes a lot of really dry work. I've been to a retrospective of his, and while I am a huge fan, he's definitely on the cool side of the spectrum. For example, he did a whole series of paintings of color charts. Have a look for yourself: news.artnet.com/art-world/gerhard-richter-color-charts-turn-50-322319
Except paint from his imagination. He doesn't know the first thing about how to do a painting like Dali, or Giger, or Beksinski... That said, his abstractions are marvelous.
If nothing else, you are a complete art snob. Not me. I don't make a division between da Vinci and Led Zeppelin. You are prejudiced against Dali, Giger (and you don't even know who Beksinski is) because of most likely handy-down snobbery. It's never a matter of the medium, but what the artist does with it. Hell, I have country and even yodeling songs that I like. And yet you like Pasolini?! Well, you get points for that. His films are among the most startlingly realistic I've seen. I haven't been the same since I saw Salo.
I love Richter's work. "March 13 2000" captures me in particular; I had never seen it before! (at 16:03). Where did you find the image for that one? I can't seem to find it online.
I scoured the internet to find the best images at the highest resolutions. I can't remember where I found any individual image because I used easily more than a dozen sources. Image searches are the standard, but sometimes you will find gems by doing conventional searches and then seen what the page in question has to offer.
fantastically put together presentation - lots of food for thought. I predict an 'anti-ai ' movement...where artists find a way through their work to circumnavigate 'the machine' - the dreaded 'algorithm'...to confound the profiling of us, which is somewhat intrusive to say the least. The artist would have to get their message across through stirring the deep unconcious in us in such a way that only a human could decipher. How is another q:) It's somewhat sinister that everything we put online , whether words or visuals, is used to profile us by ai. Not only that, they collect all of this data, and feed themselves with it, only to spew out to those that resort to ai for 'inspiration'. I yearn for an age of authenticity.
I have a plan for a series that F's with AI, NFTs, X, and the art world in a way that reinstates the human, individuality, authenticity, aesthetics, and human-made art.
Yeah, but I stopped wasting my time on IG, FB, and X. I have so little presence there that it's really not worth the effort. Better to follow my blog, which happens to be the most comprehensive art blog/site of any living artist I'm aware of: artofericwayne.com/
@@artvsmachine3703 nice! i'll keep on eye on your blog for sure - at a quick glance, i feel a reassuring resonance with what i see:). i just started insta a month back - just cos otherwise i'm fully under a rock here in the alps...it's not 'bloomed' lets say, but it somehow motivates me a little. all best to you.
We can't even make sure we'll be around in 100 years. Physical or digital data can be eroded or destroyed. So, the way we can ensure art continues in all mediums is that civilization continues and prospers. Your question is a bit like asking, "How can we be sure we'll have electricity in 1,000 years?" And if you are talking about digital art, you can always print it out, including on metal. Sadly, at present, we are hell bent on self-destruction in the name of accruing all power and assets to a tiny elite minority who are absolutely gluttonous for every more power no matter the consequences.
@@artvsmachine3703 they are meh at best, if you want to nourish your soul and intellect focus on good stuff like Roberto Matta, Frantisek Kupka, Pavel Filonov, and leave the trash in the trash can :)
No, you are just a bit limited in your scope. Roberto Matta. Hah! I am the ONLY person I am aware of to focus on a series of his that I find quite amazing: artofericwayne.com/2017/03/20/the-insectoid-figurative-gems-of-roberto-matta/ I want to make a video about that work, but it will get no views. I have to hold off and hit more popular ideas first to build my channel if I want anyone to see it. I even did a piece based on his art: artofericwayne.com/2017/04/14/new-art-octrui-inspired-by-matta/ Kupka is underrated. Filonov is interesting. I said early in the video that I'm not on the same side of the spectrum of art as Richter, and that he's a rather cool and detached analytical artist. Check out some of my art: artofericwayne.com/new-artwork/ But, he does have a great eye for color, and the large abstract paintings are amazing. If you don't like them, that's on you. That's your flat spot. Save your wrath for the likes of Hirst, Koons, Cattelan, and Martin Creed. Oh, and Duchamp, the granddaddy of anti-art.
@@artvsmachine3703 yes, Kupka is hugely important, I have a theory, if you´re from central europe or from the usa you have more chances, look Pollock, I´m far from a fan, he was a CIA cold war tool and got artificially pushed up by that guggenheim lover he had, I don´t hate him, I like his "Mural" for me is his real good work, but a genius like Kupka! Wish he did more works, he really nailed what´s being an abstract painter, he really did decompose reality and gave us a glimpse about spirituality, not a mess like De Kooning and most abstract expressionists (even he did one painting I like, my real beef is with current abstracts, 99,9% of them do crap). Matta is amazing I like his abstract ones, he has many styles, also very spiritual. And Filonov is the proof of what I said before, he died of hunger and sick in Russia, in my opinion he is a juggernaut, the best of his generation, way better than kandinsky/malevich/picasso and whatever, he is one of the really few real cubist painters (White picture) yes, died younger and did few works but took it seriously, wasn´t a clown, a jester, a entertainer, he was a real serious master. Artists now got relegated to a weird irrelevant area, yeah they can do huge sums of money but in the great scale of things they´re irrelevant, I want artists to sit down and be able to deal complex subjects with our greatest scientists/sociologists/psychologists/geologists, they´re certainly not on the same level, and it´s a shame since long ago they were among the greatests minds that civilization produced!
While interesting to look at just looks completely random like a kid throwing paint on a picture and viewers reading too much into it. The yellow paint suggests a flame flashing across the sky and swallowing up the moon….uh what?
Yeah, that's it. It's "moral nihilism" for an artist to apply paint to his own photographs in order to make an aesthetic creation that evokes the transience of time. You nailed it. And it's "intellectual prostitution" to enjoy such artistic endeavors and talk about them. Yup!
Nah. Either you didn't watch the video, or you're ability to access and appreciated art is hobbled by ideological foregone conclusions and long-standing unexamined biases. Watch the video with an open mind and you might expand your horizons. His abstracts are phenomenal. If you can't appreciate them, they you lack an eye for color.
@@artvsmachine3703 Biases are good and sane things that allow us to navigate the world. They're hard-coded into us from millions of years on this planet, and the idea that we should examine them in order to "transcend" them (or whatever) leaves unanswered the question of "Why?" In order to cultivate a better appreciation for abstract smears of color? People don't need to do this; they are already in an infinite garden filled with an infinite number of smears of color, found in every nook and cranny of every extant object in nature, none of which are flat hexadecimal Pantones. So to take an inane human artifice, such as photography, which is already an abstraction, and to add a more textured abstraction, simply so that one can enjoy the luxury of creating a taste for things that happen to have been made? It would be no different than intentionally growing a taste for feces. Sure, you could. But why? Ultimately, Western artists all buy into some variation on the supremely cosmically inane hubris that any individual's mental state / output has some inherent artistic worth, some need to be poured out into reality, to take form in layers of abstractions, and this uniquely new view has no precedent in any other culture in all of human history. Sure, you're a Western artist, so of course you buy into your own mythology, but the only person here not understanding their long-standing unexamined biases is you. Your weltanschauung has been as drilled into your head as anyone else's, and the fact that it resolves itself in the art world's psychotic self-aggrandizement is, ultimately, borne in a post-scarcity luxury-belief system in which people can buy into this noise, spend their whole lives doing it, and not starve to death.
I just discovered this channel and I’m realizing I’ve never discovered a channel so small that I know for sure will eventually be so big. Huge fan, keep it up!!
Welcome aboard! It's all up to the algorithm. But thanks for the encouraging words. I've got a list of over 50 videos I want to make. The next one on deck is promising to break through the algorithm. CZcams already pulled the plug on this video. Won't make it out of the starting gate. Most my videos have been sandboxed, one way or another.
Nice! I was once an art teacher. I liked to point out that as humans we look for meaning and of course do so when looking at art. As an artist we have different ways of presenting meaning. We could dictate or intimate and suggest. The former is shallow, brief and at worst propaganda. The later is more evocative, lingers and engages. The meaning suggested or hinted may also be present, elusive or ultimately fleeting or absent. What is seen can be powerful. What is unseen can be even more powerful! Whether is distortion, haze, blur or overpainting this can have a more profound impact then that that is clearly delineated as the viewer has to engage, decipher and and eventually let go to experience. It much more rewarding as a viewer.
Superb video on one of my favourite bodies of work. Thank you!
While I do enjoy your more scathing commentary on the art world, it is a pleasant turn to hear you praise the work of an artist you admire.
The art I rail against strongly tends to come out of the "anti-art" tradition, in which case I am actually defending art against an onslaught which has been highly successful.
@@artvsmachine3703
I’ve been reading a lot of your articles, so I picked up on that idea. It’s so strange mocking the idea of art is seen as the greatest art. I’m just happy that there are still people who want to create sincerely.
Thanks. Your presentation of Richter is informative for me because I’ve not been aware of his photography integrated work. I am a painter too. And, believe in the Construct of paint having a myriad possibilities from color.
Before watching the video, I totally thought you were going to hate on this work! Glad to be wrong. It is a great body of his work, which I was completely unaware of. Your work at the end was good, as well. Really makes me want to give this a go with some of my nude photography. Thank you for this!
Wonder why you thought I'd hate on it. Glad you like the work and that it inspired you to perhaps explore the technique yourself. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@artvsmachine3703 a lot of your videos I've watched have been on the negative side. Hahaha.
When you go up against "anti-art" it's actually positive.
I've always had an affinity for Richter since my art school days. Although I tend towards graphics, I've used overprinting in lots of my ideas because of the 'happy accidents' that occur. Great channel! Looking forward to further videos after I've checked out your playlist.
I have only been vaguely aware of Richter’s art. Now I will definitely explore it more. Thanks for turning me on to this artist. Terrific work on your part to explore and analyze his works. I especially appreciate the way you look carefully at and describe what is seen visually. Cheers-Greg
Thank you for introducing me to this wonderful artist and his sublime imagery !
Thanks for watching!
Interesting and intriguing. The painted part adds dimension to the original print and vice versa.
Yeah, it's a really cool effect the blew me away the first time I saw it.
Great to see your work at the end of the. You mentioned it in our prior conversation and I was intrigued. I loved the distortions and tripped out randomnesses .
Cool. Thanks. You can see more of my art in this video: czcams.com/video/gl4ccMQ2c0g/video.html
utterly captivating video, deeserves a congratulations!
Thanks so much for watching and the positive feedback!
I love that he wears a clean oxford button down while painting
Nice observation. And it's much better for me than Picasso painting in his underwear.
I loved your paintings at the end of the video ❤
Rock on! So glad you like them.
These over painted photos are really stirring, they give me an impression of a memory that's fading but while the details are lost you can see the raw emotion tied to the memory. Like the woman with the baby; it's like the perspective character can't remember what she was wearing or when the baby's face but the orange on her and white on the baby feel like they were remembering how struck they were by the mother's warmth and the baby's innocence and/purity. I know you said Richter is a dispassionate artist but I can't see these images that way. Maybe it has something to do with thinking about why a person would take an "ordinary" photograph in the first place, what specifically were they wanting to remember with it?
Glad you like the series. I say he's dispassionate because of his overall oeuvre which includes a lot of really dry work. I've been to a retrospective of his, and while I am a huge fan, he's definitely on the cool side of the spectrum. For example, he did a whole series of paintings of color charts. Have a look for yourself: news.artnet.com/art-world/gerhard-richter-color-charts-turn-50-322319
Richter can do anything with paint, as his uuuuurve proves.
Except paint from his imagination. He doesn't know the first thing about how to do a painting like Dali, or Giger, or Beksinski... That said, his abstractions are marvelous.
Is your avatar Pasolini?
@@artvsmachine3703 Dali, Geiger and probably the last one make images that are as dead and lifeless as most precocious adolescents are.
Pier Paolo🌹.
If nothing else, you are a complete art snob. Not me. I don't make a division between da Vinci and Led Zeppelin. You are prejudiced against Dali, Giger (and you don't even know who Beksinski is) because of most likely handy-down snobbery. It's never a matter of the medium, but what the artist does with it. Hell, I have country and even yodeling songs that I like.
And yet you like Pasolini?! Well, you get points for that. His films are among the most startlingly realistic I've seen. I haven't been the same since I saw Salo.
Pretty 😍
DOPE!
Cheers!
Well crap. I never heard of the guy until now but now I’m a fan
Excellent. Thanks for telling me.
I love Richter's work. "March 13 2000" captures me in particular; I had never seen it before! (at 16:03). Where did you find the image for that one? I can't seem to find it online.
I scoured the internet to find the best images at the highest resolutions. I can't remember where I found any individual image because I used easily more than a dozen sources. Image searches are the standard, but sometimes you will find gems by doing conventional searches and then seen what the page in question has to offer.
fantastically put together presentation - lots of food for thought. I predict an 'anti-ai ' movement...where artists find a way through their work to circumnavigate 'the machine' - the dreaded 'algorithm'...to confound the profiling of us, which is somewhat intrusive to say the least. The artist would have to get their message across through stirring the deep unconcious in us in such a way that only a human could decipher. How is another q:) It's somewhat sinister that everything we put online , whether words or visuals, is used to profile us by ai. Not only that, they collect all of this data, and feed themselves with it, only to spew out to those that resort to ai for 'inspiration'. I yearn for an age of authenticity.
I have a plan for a series that F's with AI, NFTs, X, and the art world in a way that reinstates the human, individuality, authenticity, aesthetics, and human-made art.
@@artvsmachine3703 sounds great! subbed and waiting:)
@@artvsmachine3703 you on instagrm btw?
Yeah, but I stopped wasting my time on IG, FB, and X. I have so little presence there that it's really not worth the effort. Better to follow my blog, which happens to be the most comprehensive art blog/site of any living artist I'm aware of: artofericwayne.com/
@@artvsmachine3703 nice! i'll keep on eye on your blog for sure - at a quick glance, i feel a reassuring resonance with what i see:). i just started insta a month back - just cos otherwise i'm fully under a rock here in the alps...it's not 'bloomed' lets say, but it somehow motivates me a little. all best to you.
How can an artist make sure, that the digital data of the artwork will still be available in 1000 years?
We can't even make sure we'll be around in 100 years. Physical or digital data can be eroded or destroyed. So, the way we can ensure art continues in all mediums is that civilization continues and prospers. Your question is a bit like asking, "How can we be sure we'll have electricity in 1,000 years?" And if you are talking about digital art, you can always print it out, including on metal. Sadly, at present, we are hell bent on self-destruction in the name of accruing all power and assets to a tiny elite minority who are absolutely gluttonous for every more power no matter the consequences.
feel like I'm back in the third yr at an art school.
You must have gone to a really good art school.
Do you have an Instagram page? Would love to see more of your work 😍😍
I don't bother with IG, FB or X anymore. Also a bit delinquent in updating my gallery on my blog: artofericwayne.com/new-artwork/
9:33
Francis Bacon talking about Pollock?
@@artvsmachine3703 just a bookmark for myself
Just one rung above crap.
How dare you criticize the next rung above where you are sitting complacently.
We seemingly loss our capacity to make great art, now everyone does garbage.
While there is a lot of truth in that, Richter's abstract squeegee paintings are pretty amazing if you are visually literate.
@@artvsmachine3703 they are meh at best, if you want to nourish your soul and intellect focus on good stuff like Roberto Matta, Frantisek Kupka, Pavel Filonov, and leave the trash in the trash can :)
No, you are just a bit limited in your scope. Roberto Matta. Hah! I am the ONLY person I am aware of to focus on a series of his that I find quite amazing: artofericwayne.com/2017/03/20/the-insectoid-figurative-gems-of-roberto-matta/
I want to make a video about that work, but it will get no views. I have to hold off and hit more popular ideas first to build my channel if I want anyone to see it.
I even did a piece based on his art: artofericwayne.com/2017/04/14/new-art-octrui-inspired-by-matta/
Kupka is underrated. Filonov is interesting. I said early in the video that I'm not on the same side of the spectrum of art as Richter, and that he's a rather cool and detached analytical artist. Check out some of my art: artofericwayne.com/new-artwork/
But, he does have a great eye for color, and the large abstract paintings are amazing. If you don't like them, that's on you. That's your flat spot. Save your wrath for the likes of Hirst, Koons, Cattelan, and Martin Creed. Oh, and Duchamp, the granddaddy of anti-art.
@@artvsmachine3703 yes, Kupka is hugely important, I have a theory, if you´re from central europe or from the usa you have more chances, look Pollock, I´m far from a fan, he was a CIA cold war tool and got artificially pushed up by that guggenheim lover he had, I don´t hate him, I like his "Mural" for me is his real good work, but a genius like Kupka! Wish he did more works, he really nailed what´s being an abstract painter, he really did decompose reality and gave us a glimpse about spirituality, not a mess like De Kooning and most abstract expressionists (even he did one painting I like, my real beef is with current abstracts, 99,9% of them do crap).
Matta is amazing I like his abstract ones, he has many styles, also very spiritual.
And Filonov is the proof of what I said before, he died of hunger and sick in Russia, in my opinion he is a juggernaut, the best of his generation, way better than kandinsky/malevich/picasso and whatever, he is one of the really few real cubist painters (White picture) yes, died younger and did few works but took it seriously, wasn´t a clown, a jester, a entertainer, he was a real serious master. Artists now got relegated to a weird irrelevant area, yeah they can do huge sums of money but in the great scale of things they´re irrelevant, I want artists to sit down and be able to deal complex subjects with our greatest scientists/sociologists/psychologists/geologists, they´re certainly not on the same level, and it´s a shame since long ago they were among the greatests minds that civilization produced!
While interesting to look at just looks completely random like a kid throwing paint on a picture and viewers reading too much into it. The yellow paint suggests a flame flashing across the sky and swallowing up the moon….uh what?
The word Richter uses is "coincidence". He tries to get a very spontaneous coincidence that works suggestively and is aesthetically appealing.
It is almost sacrekigious to abuse a picture but intellectual prostitution does so justifying moral nihilism
Yeah, that's it. It's "moral nihilism" for an artist to apply paint to his own photographs in order to make an aesthetic creation that evokes the transience of time. You nailed it. And it's "intellectual prostitution" to enjoy such artistic endeavors and talk about them. Yup!
Looks like more modernist bullshit to me. Artless.
Nah. Either you didn't watch the video, or you're ability to access and appreciated art is hobbled by ideological foregone conclusions and long-standing unexamined biases. Watch the video with an open mind and you might expand your horizons. His abstracts are phenomenal. If you can't appreciate them, they you lack an eye for color.
@@artvsmachine3703 Biases are good and sane things that allow us to navigate the world. They're hard-coded into us from millions of years on this planet, and the idea that we should examine them in order to "transcend" them (or whatever) leaves unanswered the question of "Why?" In order to cultivate a better appreciation for abstract smears of color? People don't need to do this; they are already in an infinite garden filled with an infinite number of smears of color, found in every nook and cranny of every extant object in nature, none of which are flat hexadecimal Pantones. So to take an inane human artifice, such as photography, which is already an abstraction, and to add a more textured abstraction, simply so that one can enjoy the luxury of creating a taste for things that happen to have been made? It would be no different than intentionally growing a taste for feces. Sure, you could. But why?
Ultimately, Western artists all buy into some variation on the supremely cosmically inane hubris that any individual's mental state / output has some inherent artistic worth, some need to be poured out into reality, to take form in layers of abstractions, and this uniquely new view has no precedent in any other culture in all of human history. Sure, you're a Western artist, so of course you buy into your own mythology, but the only person here not understanding their long-standing unexamined biases is you. Your weltanschauung has been as drilled into your head as anyone else's, and the fact that it resolves itself in the art world's psychotic self-aggrandizement is, ultimately, borne in a post-scarcity luxury-belief system in which people can buy into this noise, spend their whole lives doing it, and not starve to death.