Also known for his Gray Paintings and techniques like using a squeegee to flatten paint, for 10 points, name this German artist known for works made using photoblur.
He experimented with red, blue, and yellow in his watercolour series Colmar, while in the mid 1990s he gave up using thick impastos of iridescent color and turned back to using soft inpainting, as in his monumental Bach series. He presented a set of 48 portraits of literary and scientific figures at the German Pavilion of the 1972 Venice Biennieale, and he was greatly promoted by his friend Konrad Lueg, who is now Konrad Fischer. After briefly trying a series of "Candle Paintings," this former member of Fluxus and friend of Sigmar Polke did a series of fifteen works depicting four members of the Red Army Faction; those works are collectively known as the (*) October 18, 1977 paintings or the Baader-Meinhof works. Also known for his Gray Paintings and techniques like using a squeegee to flatten paint, for 10 points, name this German artist known for works made using photoblur.
He experimented with red, blue, and yellow in his watercolour series Colmar, while in the mid 1990s he gave up using thick impastos of iridescent color and turned back to using soft inpainting, as in his monumental Bach series.
{Gerhard Richter}