Dallas Museum Of Art Analysis

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Woman with Child (Frau mit Kind) Date: 2005 Related People: Artist: Gerhard Richter German, born 1932 Dimensions: Overall: 63 x 53 in. (1 m 60.02 cm x 134.62 cm) Medium: Framed offset print Credit Line: Dallas Museum of Art, Lay Family Acquisition Fund Object Number: 2006.10.2 One my visit to the Dallas Museum of Art. I have found many different kinds and textures of art that I rarely see in real life. The DMA holds many different cultures of art. In their Contemporary Art Collections, I found a print that took induced to be continue to stare and find the answers to why their faces are distorted. There was lot of questions that came to mind. The photo could be just any woman holding her son but for some reason, their faces…show more content…
after the war and found the city very difference from the city he grew up in. "Some buildings, or parts of buildings, were still intact, especially in Güntzstrasse where I was first and where all the first-year students studied. What I remember vividly is that very often, practically every day, we would walk through rubble to get from one building to the next, from Güntzstrasse to Brühl's Terrace and back. The whole city was strewn with rubble."1 Gerhard Richter began studying at the Düsseldorf Academy, a school for artists, and that was where he met his first wife, Marianne Eufinger (aka Ema). Gerhard had a great learning experience at the Düsseldorf Academy. During his time, Richter recalls the first time he was shown photographs of concentration camps. "I was in my early twenties. I'll never forget it. It was like a document, with reportage photos. Awful records… I remember wondering afterwards why East Germany hadn't made more of a fuss about it. It was almost like a secret book. It was like irrefutable proof of something we had always half…show more content…
Gerhard Richert is an artist that lived in an era where not of the world have seen. Artists have that great ability to capture the moment in time and make it alive for viewers to see and take a trip where they have never seen before. 1 Interview with Jan Thorn-Prikker, 2004. Gerhard Richter: Text, p.467." 2 Interview with Jan Thorn-Prikker, 2004. Gerhard Richter: Text, pp.469-70. 3 Interview with Jan Thorn-Prikker, 2004. Gerhard Richter: Text, p.470. 4 Ibid., pp.468-9; Speaking with Benjamin Buchloh, Richter elaborates, "I lived my life with a group of people who laid claim to a moral aspiration, who wanted to bridge a gap, who were looking for a middle way between capitalism and Socialism, a so-called Third Path. And so the way we thought, and what we wanted for our own art, was all about compromise. Interview with Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, 1986, Gerhard Richter: The Daily Practice of Painting, Writings 1962-1993, Hans Ulrich Obrist [ed.], Thames & Hudson, London 1995 [1995 edition, reprinted 2005], p.132 / Gerhard Richter: Text, p.164. 5 Storr, Forty Years of Painting, p.38. Work Cited Hage, Joe. "Gerhard Richter." Gerhard Richter. N.p., 2013. Web. 11 Apr.
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