Gerhard Richter has created a large number of
Overpainted Photographs in his career and new works are still being produced.
Richter has approached the Sils landscape from various angles with a series
of overpainted photographs.
In his new paintings, on display at Contemporary Fine Arts in Berlin through July 28, Schnabel uses digitally printed photographs on polyester as a starting point, then
overpaints with resin, oil, gesso and ink.
2014: Richter starts to work on the four paintings later called Birkenau [CR: 937/1 -4], based on four photographs taken by inmates of the Birkenau concentration camp that he paints on canvases and later
overpaints in an abstract manner.
He enhanced color shapes
by overpainting them, and they took on a life apart from and of equal importance to their representational function.
Themes range from the trivial to highly personal, and styles on display run
from overpainted photographs of landscapes or people to abstract «squeegee» canvases.
Although casual viewers may not notice it at first, nearly every figure in Drexler's paintings consists of a photographic reproduction glued on to the canvas and
then overpainted so that what we see is not the reproduction but Drexler's version of the image.
Just below, a section of the same white patch has been
partially overpainted with a dry brush pulled from the intense red of the middle area.
His exhibition at Hillsboro Fine Art was a striking collection of colourful large areas with
black overpainting that were at once free and exuberant, and yet containing a felling of underlying bleakness communicated by the predominant black that may hint at the calamity that befell New York City on 11th September 2001.
Vatican restorers cleaning Michelangelo's last frescoes didn't remove
later overpainting, dividing art historians and prompting an appeal to a higher authority.
[I'll have to do an update post anyway, because I've already found at least two other
overpainted paintings.]
of 30 +10, image: gerhard - richter There are at least a dozen other such editions since then which combine photos or photoreproductions and squeegeed
abstract overpainting.
The tracks left by the artist's brush in large
overpainted sections reveal impatience, as if frustration led her to abandon those areas and concentrate on the central third of the picture.
His portraits, landscapes and still lifes are silver prints that are delicately toned and
sometimes overpainted / dyed.
Internationally renowned for his paintings, drawings, sculptural artists books and oversized (and
often overpainted) prints, Anselm Kiefer requires little introduction.
For the whole of the 19th century, all we know is that Leonardo's «Salvator Mundi» is inexpertly restored and
heavily overpainted.
Untitled, by the American Richard Prince (born 1949) depicts a softly lit female nude torso in grisaille inkjet
print overpainted and extended with hefty, club - like appendages for arms and legs.
Instead, there are tapestries made by multiplying reflected versions of paintings; close - up photographs of the surface of paintings; mirror - like reflective works;
overpainted self - portraits; various grey paintings; photographic facsimiles of the iconic series of 48 Portraits presented in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1972 — so returning them to their photographic origins in encyclopaedias; and a spectacular installation of «4900 Colours», 2007.
After closer examination complex layers of
overpainted colors are found in seemingly monochromatic paintings.
In his most
recent overpainted and realistic photo - based works, Richter does not play painting and photography off one another.
His portraits, landscapes and still lifes are made into small, delicate prints, which the photographer then
frequently overpaints, dyes or steeps in tea.
The work is printed on an original cotton relic used in a performance, and
further overpainted.
None were printed in editions, but the prints fall into distinct groups of variations arising from particular plates —
overpainted impressions from the same plate, or sequential proofs from a plate as it was reworked, or both.
The
somber overpainting draws attention to itself by stopping or hesitating — leaving lighter tones along the top or bottom edge.
Directly above this is a densely collaged median layered with fragments of printed fabric, newspaper clippings, and reproductions of art objects
sporadically overpainted with broad gestures, the liquid paint allowed to dribble freely.
Other pieces such as Iarnród No. 1 feature layers of
dense overpainting, which read as clouds of grey compressing the sense of space as they hover over the surface.
Upon closer observation, however, the viewer is confronted with the typical gestural elegance of lines with unexpected beginnings and abrupt endings,
tormented overpainting and the obvious enjoyment of attacking the paper with forceful rubbings of pastel crayons.
Rachel
Harrison overpainted an image of the musician Prince, Dana Schutz made a print of Timothy Leary, and Yang Fudong photographed a night - life scene in Shanghai.
It really is a forgiving medium, allowing you to add light over dark (and of
course overpaint mistakes!)
He is most celebrated for his large - scale collages, composed of pieces of canvas or natural
linen overpainted with gestural brushstrokes.
Lubaina overpaints old objects with patterns, portraits and texts to make new readings of established histories.
Salvator Mundi has been «very
considerably overpainted,» according to the catalogue from the National Gallery's exhibition, and subsequently «aggressively over-cleaned,» in addition to, at some point, suffering a split in the wood panel, resulting in some paint losses.
The exhibition presents 330 of Richter's largely
unknown overpainted photographs, a technique he has been using since 1982.
Rooted in her longstanding interest in photography and photographic collage, Simpson's recent paintings incorporate found imagery, often taken from AP photographs and vintage magazines, which the
artist overpaints and divides across several panels.
For the past 50 - plus years, Drexler has been enlarging, collaging onto canvas, and
overpainting film posters, pinups, and tabloid photos.
Via meticulous observation of her immediate environment, D'Hollander created compositions of colored surfaces and lines, vibrating forms and
transparent overpainting.
In other galleries, slabs of marble are
exquisitely overpainted with patterns that float like water lilies on the surface; carpets, lampshades and chairs with a hint of art deco refer back to the tearoom that preceded the gallery long ago.
Upstairs, one wall bears a recreation of a station mural from Ghent, with layers of
overpainting stripped away to reveal a map of stations jostling with a nostalgic pageant; another, a recreation of a Brazilian train map with racist native figures cavorting around plains.
This medium - size panel (approximately 21 by 26 inches) appears to be a moonlit
seascape overpainted — but not obscured — by more or less evenly spaced daubs of blue and white.
Made of ripped and
overpainted paper, they are reminiscent of the poster advertisements left marked and worn throughout urban subways and building facades.
And the fact that Richter's Tokyo show was to be a selection of his
small overpainted photographs would at the very least be a change of pace, if not value.
Hogg paints monumentally scaled versions of the eighteenth century French artists Antoine Watteau's paintings, Gilles, in highly chromatic and
overpainted hatching, Kinney paints the exclamatory remark «poppycock» in an extravagant range of typographic gestures on scraps of plywood and Terada mechanically renders personal ads on an elaborate painted ground of up to 80 coats of glazing.
He then overlaid each of the resulting boards with a variety of complex silkscreened surfaces, producing a range of distortions and re-interpretations of the original image, including a number of «misprints,» many of which were developed into unique works, either as composites or
as overpainted prints.
After an early interest in Surrealism and Art Brut, during the 1950s Rainer made his
first overpaintings, which were to accompany his entire œuvre.
Skids of blue and mauve jag out from under the white
overpainting while shapes in black, orange, and yellow skirt and slide on a vertical axis.