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1024 Colours
One of the better known works from Richter's series of paintings using a color grid, inspired by commercial color charts available in stores. The colors in the painting have no specific meaning and were arranged according to a mathematical but random system. The painting shows an even distribution of colors on the grid, expressing aseptic indifference and lack of meaning, emphasizing the artistic idea of the impossibility of assigning specific meaning to colors.
Portrait of the Creator
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Artist
Gerhard Richter
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Date of birth and death
9 February 1932 – living
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Natinality
German
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Style
Abstract art, photorealism, conceptual art, capitalist realism
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Significant works
48 Portraits, 18 October 1977 series, Birkenau series, Cologne Cathedral Window, 4900 Colours
Information about the work
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Year:
1973
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Execution technique:
oil on canvas
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Location:
Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany
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Theme:
Conceptual art, Op Art, abstraction, color chart, randomness, mathematics, consumerism
Internal Narrative and Creative Framework
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Inner Narrative
The painting is an expression of the artistic challenge to traditional understanding of colors and their combinations as carriers of meaning, instead showing color as itself, distributed according to randomness and system, illustrating the artist's emotional exhaustion and his pursuit of abstraction.
The key to interpreting the work
Interpretation should consider the context of the work within the series of color charts and its relations to pop art, conceptual art and abstraction, as well as its influence on the artist's later works, including the design of the Cologne Cathedral stained glass windows.See other works by this artist
