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Like his contemporaries and many subsequent painters, Gerhard Richter loves painting with its unique sensual expressiveness and its history; yet, like many other artists today, he feels that everything has already been done, and struggles for a way to find and create meaning. Richter’s quandary between wanting to continue old traditions and wanting to create something entirely new and emblematic of today’s world has become the subject of his work. As a symbol of his doubt, Richter has refused to work in a single style. In his Untitled (No. 552-1) from 1984, one of his so-called “Free Abstract Paintings;” he tackled abstract painting, particularly gestural expression. Rather than create highly spontaneous works that were an index of his emotions, like the father of expressionistic painting, Jackson Pollock, Richter’s slashes of paint are carefully deliberated. Untitled (No. 552-1), like many contemporary works, appears to be something it isn't.
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