Tag: abstract
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The paint is the point – a reflection on the paintings of Gerhard Richter
Walking around Tate Modern’s Gerhard Richter retrospective a few years ago, I was struck first and foremost by the sheer variety of the work on show. Most of modern art’s great practitioners have their ‘one big idea’: they find a style, a voice, a genre, then spend the rest of their careers mining it for…