Art2day Research

Using the website Art2day.com I have looked at other artist who do distortion to get inspiration for my ideas.

How?

I found the website through my A-level art course. My teacher told us to look through the site for inspiration and artist ideas. I saw it had the topic of distortion and decided to use it for my BTEC course too.

 

First thing I did after clicking on the website was going onto artist search on the top bar. It will then come up with different topics for art. I Clicked onto the topic, distortion to find some artists and inspiration.

As you can see it gives me tonnes of artists that have based their work off of the topic distortion. I have done this to help with my initial ideas and experiments for my project.

Artists for distortion

Gerhard Richter - Copying Info from sources

Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter is a German painter born February 9th 1932 aged 84 (2016). Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces.

His art follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artists obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.

In October 2012 Richter's 'Abstraktes Bild' set and auction record price for a painting by a living artist at $34 million  (£21 million). This was exceeded in May 2013 when his 1968 piece 'Domplatz, Mailand' was sold for $37.1 million (£24.4 million) in New York.  

Further exceeded in Feb 2015 when his painting 'Abstraktes Bild' sold for $44.52 million (£30.4 million) in London at Sotherby's Contemporary Evening Sale.

Childhood and education:

Born in Hospital Dresden-Neustadt in Dresden, Saxony, and grew up in Reichenau, Lower Silesia (now Bogatynia, Poland) and in Waltersdorf, in the upper Lusatian countryside, where his father worked as a village teacher.

Gerhard's mother was 25 when she gave birth to him.

Relationships:
Richter married Marianne Eufinger in 1957; she gave birth to his first daughter. He married his second wife, the sculptor Isa Genzken, in 1982. Richter had a son and a daughter with his third wife, Sabine Moritz after they were married in 1995.

Art work:

Nearly all of Richter's work demonstrates both Illusionistic space that seems natural and the physical activity and material of painting- as mutual interferences. For Richter, reality is the combination of new attempts to understand- to represent, in his case, to paint- the world surrounding us.

Richter's opinions and perspectives on his own art, and that of a larger market and various artistic movements, are complied in a chronological record of "writings" and interviews.

Photo-Paintings and the "blur"

Richter created various painting pictures from black and white photographs in the 1960's and early 1970's basing them on a variety of sources: newspapers and books.