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Though iconic German artist Gerhard Richter<\/a> painted from photographs from the 1960s onward, his dry-brush painting technique abstracted images from family albums, books or magazines into intentional ambiguity.\u00a0 Focusing on landscapes, David Zwirner Gallery<\/a>\u2019s current show of Richter\u2019s work from the \u201860s to the \u201800s displays both abstract and representational work side by side and, in some works, in the same painting.\u00a0 Here, Lichtung (Clearing) seems to proffer an idyllic glade in the near distance.\u00a0 In the immediate foreground, however, Richter imposes a permeable barrier between viewers and the scenic break in the forest by applying green-toned abstract passages of paint on the painting\u2019s surface.\u00a0 Our inclination to mentally venture into the meadow beyond is arrested as the focus shifts to the surface of the canvas, changing the painting from a nature scene into an experience of light, color and tone.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through July 10th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n

Gerhard Richter, Lichtung (Clearing), oil on canvas, 28 \u00bd x 40 1\/8 inch, 1987.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though iconic German artist Gerhard Richter painted from photographs from the 1960s onward, his dry-brush painting technique abstracted images from family albums, books or magazines into intentional ambiguity.\u00a0 Focusing on landscapes, David Zwirner Gallery\u2019s current show of Richter\u2019s work from the \u201860s to the \u201800s displays both abstract and representational work side by side and, … <\/p>\n

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