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Color Chart No.139 1
A painting belonging to the conceptual art and op-art movement. It depicts rectangular color fields arranged in a grid, showing a variety of tonalities and color shades. The work is an exploration of color and its perception in abstract form, consistently realized in Richter's systematic series.
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:
1966
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Theme:
color palette, abstraction, op-art, patterns, tones and shades
Internal Narrative and Creative Framework
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Inner Narrative
The painting is an investigation and cataloging of colors in a formal form, commenting on the role of color as a purely visual and abstract element without additional symbolic meaning.
The key to interpreting the work
Analyze as part of a broad series of experiments with color, perception, and geometric form in conceptual abstraction and op-art.See other works by this artist
