COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
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The AMICA Library
Collection
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AMICA ID:
CMA_.1998.74
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CMA_.1998.74
AMICA ID
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AMICA Library Year:
2000
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2000
AMICA Library Year
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Object Type:
Prints
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Prints
Object Type
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Creator Name:
Richter, Gerhard
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Richter, Gerhard
Creator Name
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Creator Nationality:
European; Northern European; German
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European; Northern European; German
Creator Nationality
false
Creator Role:
artist
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artist
Creator Role
false
Creator Dates/Places:
1932
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1932
Creator Dates/Places
false
Gender:
M
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M
Gender
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Creator Name-CRT:
Gerhard Richter
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Gerhard Richter
Creator Name-CRT
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Title:
Elisabeth II
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Elisabeth II
Title
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Title Type:
Primary
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Primary
Title Type
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View:
Full View
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Full View
View
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Creation Date:
1966
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1966
Creation Date
false
Creation Start Date:
1966
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1966
Creation Start Date
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Creation End Date:
1966
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1966
Creation End Date
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Materials and Techniques:
color offset lithograph
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color offset lithograph
Materials and Techniques
false
Dimensions:
Sheet: 70cm x 59.5cm, Image: 70cm x 59.4cm
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Sheet: 70cm x 59.5cm, Image: 70cm x 59.4cm
Dimensions
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AMICA Contributor:
The Cleveland Museum of Art
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
AMICA Contributor
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Owner Location:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Owner Location
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ID Number:
1998.74
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1998.74
ID Number
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Credit Line:
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Credit Line
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Inscriptions:
signed and dated in graphite, lower right corner: "Elisabeth II" and numbered in graphite on verso, lower left corner: 15/50
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signed and dated in graphite, lower right corner: "Elisabeth II" and numbered in graphite on verso, lower left corner: 15/50
Inscriptions
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Rights:
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<a href="http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html"target="_new">http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html</a>
Rights
false
Context:
Richter is one of the most important German artists working today. Very interested in issues of reality and perception, he has explained, "I am suspicious regarding the image of reality which our senses convey to us and which is incomplete and limited." For him, ways of seeing are more certain than what is being seen, and thus the camera has played an essential role throughout his career. Because a photograph captures only a fleeting moment, it conveys the idea that reality is elusive. In his work, Richter often uses blurred photographs to reinforce the impression that our grasp of even a particular moment is uncertain.In the early 1960s Richter searched for a what might be called a "nonart" working method. He began to make paintings and prints based upon photographs that he took himself, family snapshots, or even images appropriated from the media. His reliance on photographs was a way to avoid emotion and achieve expressive neutrality. Elisabeth II was devised from a photograph of the queen over which a grid pattern was superimposed. It exemplifies the cool, representational style at the beginning of Richter's career and thus complements Abstract Painting (750-1)? currently hanging in Gallery 243?a large picture made in 1991, when the artist's style had changed radically.
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Richter is one of the most important German artists working today. Very interested in issues of reality and perception, he has explained, "I am suspicious regarding the image of reality which our senses convey to us and which is incomplete and limited." For him, ways of seeing are more certain than what is being seen, and thus the camera has played an essential role throughout his career. Because a photograph captures only a fleeting moment, it conveys the idea that reality is elusive. In his work, Richter often uses blurred photographs to reinforce the impression that our grasp of even a particular moment is uncertain.In the early 1960s Richter searched for a what might be called a "nonart" working method. He began to make paintings and prints based upon photographs that he took himself, family snapshots, or even images appropriated from the media. His reliance on photographs was a way to avoid emotion and achieve expressive neutrality. Elisabeth II was devised from a photograph of the queen over which a grid pattern was superimposed. It exemplifies the cool, representational style at the beginning of Richter's career and thus complements Abstract Painting (750-1)? currently hanging in Gallery 243?a large picture made in 1991, when the artist's style had changed radically.
Context
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Related Image Identifier Link:
CMA_.1998.74.tif
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CMA_.1998.74.tif
Related Image Identifier Link
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