Richter was born in Dresden in 1932. He studied billboard and stage painting, as well we mural painting. He was inspiring by the Jackson Pollock and Lucio Fonta abstract paintings in 1959 which helped to shape his own style.The abstraction is very clear, especially in one of his watercolors, "2.1.1978 (5)" which I really like the thickness of the paint, yet the constant liquidity that it keeps. Abstractions such as these evoke the viewer to come up with their own ideas of what is being portrayed in these pieces. This one, gives me a feeling of possibly the skeleton of a building or some structure which is surrounded by this liquid color, swirling about and melting away. I believe these types of paintings also give inspiration to create one's own artwork which looks more like what this image evokes the viewer's mind to create.
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