Richter's «take» on life appears to be that of a man permanently focused on «the dark side of the road,» and he has consequently been called many negative things: «dour undertaker, dry - eyed mourner,
systematic debunker of clichés and lethal parodist,» among others, writes Robert Storr, in the huge catalogue which accompanies the exhibition, «Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting.»