Abstraktes Bild 1987

Gerhard Richter made this painting, titled "Abstraktes Bild", using squeegees to drag paint across the canvas. I can almost feel the push and pull of the tool, the shifting and layering of these luscious colours! Look at the way the greens and blues mix, how they’re sliced through with those reds. It's as if the artist is playing with depth and surface, revealing and concealing at the same time. I imagine Richter standing before this canvas, maybe lost in thought, maybe just letting his hand guide the squeegee. That drag mark, that one right there, it’s like a conversation. A dialogue between him, the paint, and the surface. Like the Abstract Expressionists, Richter embraces the unexpected, using chance operations to arrive at an image. This piece is a great reminder of how art keeps evolving. We all build on what’s come before, but somehow make it our own. And that’s what makes art so exciting.