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From: art reviews Category: Art Date: 05 March 2009 Time: 07:19 AM Review: Richter, is beloved of people who like paintings that look a bit like photos. So that would be most people. His innovation was to get a big brush and run it over the soft paint to make it look like a blurry photo. Paintings of photos always look good in reproduction, because they reduce the cack- handedness of the painting and make it look like a photo again, which was the original interesting object. Richters paintings are extremely disappointing as paintings. There are lots of them, mostly deadly gray (I am sure some smart alec will tell me they are meant to be dead as photos), and the coloured ones such as the famous one of his daughter turning his head look like woolworths (deceased) has applied a paint effect to a photo to produce a lovely realistic object for your wall. What irony we are meant to admire in a badly brushed sad copy of a photo with all over worked paint satirising the death of the author and the great painter. All hail Richter the master.