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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/820/826-22.jpg
Title	July 1983.
Alternative Title	July.
Creator	Richter, Gerhard (German painter, born 1932)
Date	1983
Cultural Context	German European Western European
Style/Period	Abstract (fine arts style) Contemporary Postmodern
Theme	Paintings (visual works) Oil paintings (visual works) Abstraction Expression
Subject	Paintings Oil paintings Abstract paintings Abstract works
Description	"In the mid-1980s Richter produced abstract paintings as well as realist 'photo-paintings'. […] he appeared here to be recapitulating the ideological options underpinning postwar modernism in so far as his own transplantation from Eastern to Western Europe had been paralleled by an imperative to favor abstract artistic modes over realist ones. […] Richter's abstractions also appeared to mock the modes of expressionist brushwork blithely revisited by Neo-Expressionist contemporaries. However, Richter complicated matters here by asserting that his abstractions were concerned with expressing the 'transcendental' or 'inexplicable'. […] Looking at July (1983) one needs to be aware that Richter had painted related abstractions in the late 1970s from photographs of his own paintings, but by this point was overlaying free brushwork onto smooth, photo-derived, abstract grounds. The effect is that of looking into some form of photographically illusionistic space, in which brushstrokes, either directly applied or 'depicted' in incongruous scale, usurp the places of figures or landscape features. The Surrealist Salvador Dali once asserted that he wished to make 'hand colored dream photographs'. However, rather than depicting dreams (which are impalpable) Richter paradoxically depicts 'expression', locating it in the lurid photo-reality envisaged by Dali. We are given dizzying access into the very interstices of representation." (Excerpts, pp.217-219)
Material	Oil on canvas Oil paint (pigmented coating) Paint Canvas
Measurements	250 x 250 cm
Technique	Oil painting (technique) Painting (image-making)
Work Type	Paintings Oil paintings Abstract paintings Abstract works
Repository	Private collection
Source	Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.218, fig.113)
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 826-22.jpg
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