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Movement
Balance
Contrast
Dept
Color
Overlapping

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thinking= not being present
When I am making art I am present.

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Marina Abramović & Ulay: No Predicted End | Full Documentary

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Marina Abramović & Ulay: No Predicted End | Full Documentary

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Waar ben ik naar opzoek?
Wat doe ik?
Waar gaat mijn werk over?

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'There are always flowers for those who want to see them' - Henri Matisse

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Interesting book with a lot of good artists!

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Daniel Richter is one of the foremost German artists of his generation, whose practice has evolved over time to encompass notable stylistic turns. Richter's paintings synthesize art history, mass media, politics, sex, and contemporary culture into ever-changing pictorial worlds. The artist maintains that the dichotomy between abstract and figurative painting is a constructed fiction, since the formal problems of color and composition remain constant. This framework for thinking about painting continues to inform the development of Richter's approach.

During his formative years in the 1990s, working as an assistant to Albert Oehlen, Richter looked to the radical history of abstraction and the freedoms it allowed, filling the canvas with a maximum amount of visual information. He later transitioned to figuration; drawn to conflicting themes in society, he began painting his reactions and observations using a mix of images, text, and narrative elements. Richter's works from this period freely associate myriad references including current events, episodes from inner city life, comic books, dreams, and historical paintings. Violence, isolation, and awkwardness are indicated through a painterly language that deals in both absurdity and surrealism while experimenting with the boundaries of representation and abstraction.

Starting 2015, Richter began to narrow the scope of his focus to the human form, with a new unmistakable approach that abandoned the vastness of previous scenes in favor of more direct compositions. In these paintings, the compression and tension between figures expresses a range of dynamics, proposing powerful intersubjective experiences through the convergence of forms. The interplay of strongly defined silhouettes and the subtle gradations of each background creates a balance between abstraction and figuration. The tension played out in Richter's large-scale compositions is elevated by the colors and forms he uses and lends the works a ludic quality.

Daniel Richter (b. 1962 in Eutin, DE) lives and works in Berlin (DE). He graduated from the Hochschule für bildenden Künste, Hamburg (DE) in 1995, where he studied under Werner Büttner.

Richter's work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at venues including: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (DE); Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL); CAC, Málaga (ES); Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (US); Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck (AT); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (CA); Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main (DE); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (DK); 21er Haus, Vienna (AT); Camden Arts Centre, London (UK); Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (DE); Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London (UK); Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (US) and GRIMM, Amsterdam (NL) and New York, NY (US), amongst others.

His work has been included in group exhibitions at: Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK); Hall Art Foundation, Derneburg (DE); Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (US); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (IE); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (DE); Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (DE); Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki (FI); Mori Museum of Art, Tokyo (JP); Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg (AT); S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE); The Saatchi Gallery, London (UK); Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (IT), and Kunsthalle, Basel (CH) and many other venues. His work is included in many private and public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (US); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (FR); Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin (DE); Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main (DE); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (CA); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (DE); Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (US), Kunstmuseum, The Hague (NL); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (DK); Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, (FR); Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg (AT), among others.

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Daniel Richter is one of the foremost German artists of his generation, whose practice has evolved over time to encompass notable stylistic turns. Richter's paintings synthesize art history, mass media, politics, sex, and contemporary culture into ever-changing pictorial worlds. The artist maintains that the dichotomy between abstract and figurative painting...

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Ernesto Neto Interview: Force of the Forest

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VTV Classics (r3): John Bock at Anton Kern Gallery, New York (2010)

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Richard Tuttle Interview: Artists Are Like Clouds

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Curiosity?

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'The only good nation is imagination'

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-Observing,
I noticed that when I for example go for a walk I see so many interesting and beautiful things. Because we are so busy we forget to appreciate what's around us. I can enjoy just watching trees, they all have a different shape and so many branches. I notice that I look for things that are pleasing for the eyes and also how is it made and how is it possible something looks like this?

-There is so much. I am still figuring out how I use things in my work and what words I can give to it.

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John Bock works a lot in space (spatial) that is something I also want to work more with

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I photographed yarn, then I overlapped two photos and made them negative

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'There is beauty in everything, just not everybody sees it' - Andy warhol

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'We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are'

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'Everything is connected'

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- Composition
- Balance
- How does it feel?
- How does it look?
- How does it move?
- What can I do with it or to it?
- Forms
- Contrast

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Berlinische Galerie: John Bock. Im Moloch der Wesenspräsenz (24.02.–21.08.2017)

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'Art is not about telling it is about showing'
'Art is about things you don't know' - Lawrence Weiner

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'It grows out of my hands'
'Something that never ends'

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'Everything you can imagine is real' -Pablo Picasso

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'Impossible is just an opinion' -Paulo Coelho

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'Beauty is in the mind' -Agnes Martin

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'Art is not a thing, it is a way'
'Art is a language that does not need to be translated'
'Art is the journey of a free soul'
'Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known'
'Art is communicating'
'Art is everywhere you look for it'

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Sentences and words that are a inspiration to me

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John Bock is a multi-media artist. He does performances, makes sculptures and installations. He is very free in his way of working and nothing is to crazy, something I admire.