Girl Reading
“ The flower still life’s sentimental, yet irresistible beauty acted as a punctuation mark to the overall rather sombre mood….Art and beauty are the preserves of hope in the face of an often hard-to-bear reality. Beauty is the opposite of destruction, disintegration and damage…. “ Gerhard Richter, Panorama
The airy atmosphere of Gerhard Richter’s ‘Girl Reading’ was the inspiration for this work.
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