GERHARD RICHTER "BAGHDAD: 914-2", 2010Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) is one of the most successful living artists of all time, and currently the highest paid living artist. Born in Germany, and producing most of his work there, Richter has broken formal, expressive, and conceptual boundaries to produce a diverse and monumental oeuvre. Richter is known for a stylistically varied exploration of the medium of painting. He could be described as ambidextrous as he has had success as both a

Interestingly when he debuted the "Stretch" series it was met with critical ambivalence and the production was short-lived

and less than two years before the untimely demise of two of its members

He began spraying the paint on his canvases

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the absence of color

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To learn more about Lizz Aston's process click here for a video and studio tour produced by Canadian Art magazine

with the permission of his widow

circa 1943

In "Lateral Optics" Aston presents an unadorned or nude intricately carved paper creation hovering over a treated sheet of dichroic film

as polemic as he is

In the late 1950s Town established his reputation with a series of unique abstract prints ("Single Autographic Prints") that included elements of collage