Richter's surfaces also record the quickness or slowness of his gestures, gestures made with physical effort, but mediated through large unconventional tools, such as house paint brushes taped to long bamboo rods and variously
sized squeegees edged with transparent Plexiglas.
You purchase window cleaner, a few different
size squeegees, a bucket or pale, a extendable pole for tall windows, and some paper towels.
Not exact matches
Almost 5 x 8 feet in
size, these drawings combine acrylic
squeegee and drip techniques with pastel and charcoal mark making.
Using palette knives and different -
sized dry brushes alongside the
squeegee, Richter scraped, smeared and redirected the random collision of pigments achieved in his initial application of paint.
After tightly
sizing his canvases, he scraped on colored gel with
squeegee - like tools.