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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Richter, Gerhard Creator Nationality: European; Northern European; German Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: 1932 Gender: M Creator Name-CRT: Gerhard Richter Title: Elisabeth II Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1966 Creation End Date: 1966 Creation Date: 1966 Object Type: Prints Materials and Techniques: color offset lithograph Dimensions: Sheet: 70cm x 59.5cm, Image: 70cm x 59.4cm Inscriptions: signed and dated in graphite, lower right corner: "Elisabeth II" and numbered in graphite on verso, lower left corner: 15/50 AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1998.74 Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html 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. AMICA ID: CMA_.1998.74 AMICA Library Year: 2000 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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