Essays about: "Gerhard Richter"

Found 2 essays containing the words Gerhard Richter.

  1. 1. Painting in the twenty-tens;where to now? : (You can’t touch this!)

    University essay from Kungl. Konsthögskolan

    Author : Max Olofsson; [2012]
    Keywords : Painting; painthing; information painting; digital painting; pixel; pixels; cave paintings; materiality; physicality; video –games; projection; reversed evolution; comics; passion; utopia; Gerhard Richter; Super Mario;

    Abstract : The essay is a manifesto-like personal take on painting, and a redefinition of painting in the digital age. Careless usage of the term ”painting” has led to a diluted descriptive function and a waning categorizing capacity; almost anything can be called painting, which in turn puts actual painting in an awkward position – where it, apart from being itself, could be almost anything. READ MORE

  3. 2. Auction Houses and Contemporary Art : A Study of Outstanding Sales in 2007 and 2009

    University essay from Internationella Handelshögskolan

    Author : Anna Kalmykova; [2010]
    Keywords : contemporary art market; Sotheby’s; Christie’s; price estimates; over-performance;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to analyze contemporary art market in terms of auction sales carried out bySotheby’s and Christie’s in London and New York in 2007 and 2009. The study deals withinvestigating the cases when artworks’ prices exceeded their estimates. READ MORE