ART HOTEL BERLIN Painting
Added 2021-01-28 00:08:04 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite painters is Gerard Richter, particularly when he painted a series of realism portraits of actual photographs of family members, friends, etc. The moments he chose were never typical, always off in tone and angle and subject, so in 2016 when I saw this candid photo taken by a partner,-- with whom I was entertaining marriage and my move to Berlin-- I knew I would paint it at some point. He took pictures of me brushing my teeth, walking down the street, waiting for the subway, sitting at my laptop working, etc., and this was just as I was either getting up from working at the laptop and being called away, or else I was getting away to the laptop-- whichever the case doesn't matter. But here I worked with stark color and the fictionalizing of a real moment and the fictionalizing of the self. Even my traditional "self-portraits" are fictional portraits.
