Comments on: Gerhard Richter paintings: top selling living artist

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Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:42:13 +0000

[…] art auction moved Gerhard Richter to the pole position. His Abstraktes Bild (809-4) became the most expensive abstract art painting of a living artist ever, surpassing the place held until then by Jasper Jons. Going back to the above Rothko´s record and […]

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Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:58:54 +0000

[…] they help themselfs survive). As Barcelona´s painter Xavier Ribas commented in my last post about Richter´s art auction prices, “the importance realies on what painters (and artists) say, and not on how they say […]

By: yasoypintor

yasoypintor — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:50:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing your thoughts Nedko.

Regards.

Antonio

By: Nedko

Nedko — Sun, 30 Dec 2012 22:59:00 +0000

Gerhard Richter is without question great artist (look at his website). But what this has to do with the last Sotheby’s sells? They will sell your old sofa if there is some body to buy it. People do not understand that art is a social relation and need for beauty. Who cares for this specific abstract painting which wall will decorate?(except Mr. Richter). After selling his works so successfully, he will be the same looking for experiments artist, and that is the “no death of painting” which is really the great of this “profession”. Is simple, Art of Painting will be.

By: yasoypintor

yasoypintor — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 08:24:23 +0000

Hello Tony, I perfectly understand what you mean. Sometimes it´s not only the technique that counts the most. There are many other variables that determine the capacity to sell or not to sell and art work. Time consistency; innovation; public relations; how, when and through who you market your art, luck … Keep going!!!

Regards.

Antonio Basso

By: Tony L.

Tony L. — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 22:46:56 +0000

I’m somewhat new to painting but not at all noob. I painted at the nineties and stopped for quite a while and I swear to god that I never knew Richter nor I ever seen his work of art. But somehow, I was using the same technique back then unless he’s using a oversize squeegee and I was using pieces of paper to rub the colors like he did. And his paintings sold for millions of dollars. I’m a bit disappointed, he was painting when I wasn’t even born so technically, it’s his technique I was using. No wonder not even one painting of mine could ever be sold on the art market and I stopped using the technique since. People wanted to see something new, something they never see in their lifetime. However, I’m still struggling in the battle for selling my paintings at the moment although the price tag is not more than 200 bucks per piece. Well, talking about fate.

By: yasoypintor

yasoypintor — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 07:10:05 +0000

Hello Williard, I don´t agree with you that painters are not problem solver or scientists. I believe that an artist and a scientist may have many common characteristics. Interesting your point about DOUBT. What do you exactly mean?.

Rgds and thaks for joining.

Antonio Basso

By: williard

williard — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:12:31 +0000

I dont agree. Painting will continue while there are painters. Painters arent problem solvers,or scientists, painters are not concerned with truth, their currency is DOUBT. It takes effort and knowledge to be certain, doubt is much more democratic, available to one and all.

By: yasoypintor

yasoypintor — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:00:49 +0000

Hello Mel, thanks for adding your vision.

Regards

Antonio Basso

By: Mel Brigg

Mel Brigg — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 06:33:14 +0000

Nothing other than pure unadulterated crap, any plasterer would get the same results without the price tag

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By: yasoypintor

yasoypintor — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 18:06:17 +0000

Hello Xavier,

I agree with you with the importance of what you say and not how you say it. But when what you do to say what you want express is not crearly understood and / or transmited (and here the technique employed plays an important role), then the “what” looses strengh. I certainly believe and have seen, great contemporary artists out there (either figurative, abstract, painters, sculptors, architects ……..) that really say interesting things using classical mecanisms and techniques. Technology is not always necesary. I would say that imagination (what you think, dream …), visual power (what you see) and sensitivity (what you feel) are more important.

Anyway, to me painting is not yet dead.

Regards and thanks for sharing your ideas.

Antonio

By: xavier

xavier — Sun, 02 Sep 2012 17:59:54 +0000

It’s irrelevant if you apply painting on a surface or express yourself with new technologies. I think the important part is what you say and no how. Art, in all its forms, has been giving way to science in our culture as a better tool for the society to solve problems and doubts as a comunity. It’s no longer an spiritual necessity. Icons belong to the market and not to the souls. Art is not anymore the media that connect thoughts and believes, but the last step where everything ends.
Science keeps asking questions and solving doubts that Art can’t simply answer.
Thanks
Xavier Ribas
http://www.xavieribas.com

By: yasoypintor

yasoypintor — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:57:06 +0000

Hello Scott, a friend of mine told me the other day that his uncle used to say that while imagination persists, there will always be room for evolution. I guess this can also be applied to painting. Despite tecnhologies, photography and the like there will always be room for painting. Today, there are more galeries, collectors, museums, fairs, auctions, and painters than ever in history. This is a fact. Painting is not dead yet but it probably needs to evolve.

Thanks a lot for sharing your thoughts.

Take care

Antonio Basso

By: yasoypintor

yasoypintor — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 22:49:35 +0000

Hello Vivian, thanks for your comment. My question for you is what would you do?

Regards

Antonio Basso

By: Vivian Fishbone

Vivian Fishbone — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:28:35 +0000

The decline of art has been evident by the dearth of art reviews in mainstream newspapers like the New York Times. It is sad, because there are still thousands of good easel painters. What can be done?

By: scott hile

scott hile — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:09:37 +0000

I do agree with Richter’s statement that it is a bad time for painting. And for the same reasons he sites, photography, film installations, etc. I think it has been a very gradual decline, so gradual that it’s not really awakened the art world to the decline, but society today and the next generation of artists as well as collectors have recognized the artistic validity of these new genres of artistic expression and with the ever evolving technologies at artists disposal it has become a legitimate avenue for artist to create and express themselves in ways that in previous generations was not available. So do I think that the painter is a dinosaur on the way to extinction? No not at all, but there is and will continue to be an explosion of art that is based on the technological developments in the digital age that is being evermore embraced by the new generation of artists as well as collectors.

By: yasoypintor

yasoypintor — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:15:20 +0000

Hi Rose, I´m sure he does. Thks for commenting.

Rgds

Antonio