{"id":3211,"date":"2012-01-22T23:05:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T23:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2012-01-22T23:16:32","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T23:16:32","slug":"a-new-film-captures-the-german-impasto-master-at-work-with-his-squeegee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/a-new-film-captures-the-german-impasto-master-at-work-with-his-squeegee\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerhard Richter Painting &#8211; via Nowness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;A New Film Captures the German Impasto Master at Work with His Squeegee.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The notoriously secretive creative process of reclusive German artist Gerhard Richter is exposed in filmmaker Corinna Belz\u2019s new fly-on-the-wall documentary,<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowness.com\/day\/2011\/10\/7\/1668\/gerhard-richter-painting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gerhard Richter Painting<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0Belz spent three years as an observer in Richter\u2019s Cologne studio capturing mesmerizing footage of the artist producing his radical abstract works. As we witness him mixing layer upon layer of bold primary colors, smearing the wet paint with a giant squeegee and scraping at the surfaces of the canvases, Richter\u2019s masterpieces appear before our eyes. \u201cYou get the feeling the paintings are staring at you,\u201d says Belz, who met the painter while filming his vibrant pixelated stained glass window for the Cologne Cathedral. \u201cThere\u2019s a physicality to Richter\u2019s paintings. I wanted the viewer to become immersed in the subtly suspenseful cycle of the process.\u201d Belz\u2019s poetic film coincides with Richter\u2019s 80th birthday and a major retrospective at London\u2019s Tate Modern spanning five decades of his varied work.&#8221; &#8211; Nowness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A New Film Captures the German Impasto Master at Work with His Squeegee. The notoriously secretive creative process of reclusive German artist Gerhard Richter is exposed in filmmaker Corinna Belz\u2019s new fly-on-the-wall documentary, Gerhard Richter Painting.\u00a0Belz spent three years as an observer in Richter\u2019s Cologne studio capturing mesmerizing footage of the artist producing his radical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3215,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions\/3215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newbloodart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}