Artist Gerhard Richter's Paintings from the 1980s | Christie's

'These are object lessons in what painting can be'. Art critic Adrian Searle celebrates the work of the world-renowned German artist Gerhard Richter. Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) is ‘the most complicated of painters’, observes the art critic Adrian Searle. For over half a century, the German painter has been a compelling if elusive presence in the art world, confounding audiences with his transitions between styles and techniques. Standing before a number of Richter’s realist and abstract pictures from the 1980s — a decade the critic describes as ‘one of the most contradictory periods in the artist’s career’ — Searle explains that ‘even though they look like they’ve been done by 10 different artists, you always know a Richter’. This, he says, is chiefly because of their psychological power. -- Subscribe to Christie's YouTube: http://goo.gl/Vmh7Hf Sign up to Christie's Weekly: https://goo.gl/kc8qpV Follow Christie's on: Facebook: https://ift.tt/2elC9Zg Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChristiesInc Instagram: https://ift.tt/2iJ3lGm Pinterest: https://ift.tt/2elCafM