Gerard Richter is one of the most expensive artists of our time and he deserve it. Why? He is one of the most important artist for the art of our days.
His works reflected about all subjects in painting in a spectacular way, like Picasso did in his time. His work is immense and has a wide range of variety and imagination.
So, I want to share with you a funny case about richter´s work, about the work that he made to the Cologne cathedral. He was invited to make a stained glass window to substitute the old one that was destroyed in World War II.
He used the same idea of his series of works “colour charts” for the stained glass window, that appear to be abstract paintings but, in reality, they are figurative paintings. The catholic religion don´t accept the abstract images, their ideology defend the figurative images. The muslims believe in the opposite, they don´t have faith in figurative images. They refuse the materialization of their saints.
Under these assumptions, Cardinal Joachim Meisner has been critical of richter´s stained glass window, and reportedly would have preferred a more traditionally figurative subject, he also said that Richter´s work seemed more fit for a mosque.
With these pronounced words, Joachim Meisner shows his few knowledge about art, about art subjects, and the most important, about the art made by the artist hired by the Catholic church to do the stained glass.
Can we talk about abstract painting in our days?
stained glass II