In 1985 Richter said that he was ready to «try out my abstract works in printmaking but in a more conventional manner... etching and all that,» but it did not happen.12 Instead he continued to cycle
between mechanical reproduction (with increasingly refined production values) and haptic hand - facture.
Whilst in the work different coloured bands surrounding a circle might be likened to an aura, I wonder if that famous Walter Benjamin opposition
between mechanical reproduction and the aura of the single artwork is also being referenced.
Not exact matches
A unique fusion of photography and painting, Isca Greenfield - Sanders» work creates a rich dialogue
between abstraction and figuration,
mechanical reproduction and handcraft, and narration and formalist visuality.
Continuing to investigate the boundary
between mechanical and manual
reproduction, he works with appropriated images of vintage photographs, deftly mimicking the Xerox aesthetic by hand, using only carbon pencil, charcoal and acrylic.
A unique fusion of photography and painting, Isca Greenfield - Sanders's work creates a rich dialogue
between abstraction and figuration,
mechanical reproduction and handcraft, and narration and formalist visuality.
His work investigates the boundary
between mechanical and manual
reproduction, how meaning is created or lost through copying.
Some critics, particularly those preoccupied with terminal progress, narrow the view further and describe his brushstrokes of hardened encaustic as the bridge
between Abstract Expressionism's volatile brushwork and Andy Warhol's use of
mechanical reproduction, the latter cited by many experts as signaling the death of painting.
He thrived on the increasing confusion
between high art and progressive popular culture and the challenge to conventional methods of painting by the techniques of
mechanical reproduction.