Research/Reading the Masters/Ⅶ Those of Today
Ⅶ — Those of Today · No. 44 / 50
Gerhard Richter — Abstract Painting
리히터 — 〈추상화〉
A major series developed from the 1980s onward, painted in oil with brushes and large squeegees.
Layers of color have been pushed and scraped. Reds, blues, and greens beneath the surface appear in fragments and are covered again.
Richter dragged large squeegees across wet paint. He chose the colors, but he could not completely control how they would mix, tear, or reveal the layers below. Intention and accident remain on the same surface.
These abstractions are not simply direct outpourings of emotion. Painting, covering, and scraping recur until the image becomes an accumulation of the visible and the concealed.
Byun Shi-Ji’s dried-grass color is not a monochrome obtained in a single application. It is the color of time and weather accumulated, faded, and dried. Richter pushes paint aside to reveal earlier layers; Byun lowers color until years settle within it.
One surface is scraped memory. The other is memory dried into place.
The covered colors never disappear completely.
The interpretation is the author’s. No unverified statement has been presented as the artist’s own words.