Besen 1984

Gerhard Richter made ‘Besen’ with paint on canvas, and he’s still at it, which is amazing. I can just imagine Richter in the studio, attacking the canvas. Look at those sweeping gestures of black paint, like windshield wipers clearing away the colors underneath. Yellows, blues, and greens peek through, creating this vibrant, almost chaotic energy. I wonder if he was listening to music while he worked, something loud and maybe a little angry. There's a real physicality to the paint, it’s like he’s pushing and pulling it across the surface, trying to find some kind of balance between control and accident. You know, painting can be like that, a conversation between you and the material, a constant push and pull. Richter's always messing with ways of seeing, and how abstraction can still hold feeling. It's like he’s saying, "Here’s what I see, now what do you see?" And that’s the beauty of painting, it’s an open-ended question, a constant invitation to look and think again.