Passage 1968

Gerhard Richter made this painting called Passage, at an unknown date, and with it, he's giving us the feels, right? The colour palette is a symphony of blues and grays, that kind of bleed into each other like a hazy memory. I can almost feel Richter's hand moving across the canvas, layering those colours, blurring the lines until the image seems to dissolve before our eyes. It's like he's chasing after something just out of reach, a fleeting moment or an elusive emotion. I wonder what Richter was thinking about when he made this. Was he trying to capture the way light shifts and changes, or was he after something deeper, like the way our perceptions can never fully grasp reality? I think this painting fits into the whole lineage of landscape painting, with it’s interest in light, air, and how we perceive the world around us. And that’s the thing about painting, it's a way of seeing, thinking, and experiencing, and it's never quite pinned down.