Waldstück 1969

Gerhard Richter made Waldstück using oil paint, and just look at how he's handled it. It's all about the process. The texture is dreamy, like a memory fading at the edges. The colors are a study in grays, blurring the line between what's there and what isn't. See how the paint is thin in some spots, almost transparent, and thick in others, creating a real push and pull? There are these vertical marks, like tears or streaks of rain, that cut through the whole piece. They're kind of haunting, adding this layer of emotion that's hard to shake off. Richter’s work often plays with this tension between representation and abstraction, a conversation also explored by artists like Cy Twombly. It’s like he’s saying, "Here's a picture, but what does it really show?"