Hood

Print

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Calvin University Center Art Gallery

In the image, there are two figures walking side by side on a street, where one is holding the other by the arm. The person being led wears a hood that conceals their face. A striking feature is the overlay of a red and black textured pattern on the left side, adding an abstract element to the composition.

In the image, there are two figures walking side by side on a street, where one is holding the other by the arm. The person being led wears a hood that conceals their face. A striking feature is the overlay of a red and black textured pattern on the left side, adding an abstract element to the composition.

Name/Title

Hood

Entry/Object ID

2002.13.1

Description

Red paint smeared across a newspaper photograph, to the extent that the only visible portion shows a hooded man being led away by another man.

Type of Print

Lithograph

Artwork Details

Medium

off-set litho

Category

Vault, People, Objects, Abstract

Made/Created

Artist

Gerhard Richter

Date made

1966

Dimensions

Dimension Description

image size

Height

7 in

Width

10 in

Dimension Description

frame size

Height

19-1/4 in

Width

19-1/4 in

Exhibition

90 Years of Collecting - September 4–October 20, 2012 Center Art Gallery

General Notes

Note

Expanded Wall Label: Gerhard Richter is one of the most influential painters working today, and considered by many to be the model of a post-modern artist. Beginning in the early 1960s his work began to garner serious attention for his subtle and thought-provoking images culled from the news media and family albums. His work embraces a variety of painting styles and often utilizes photographs with heavily layered and colored gestures of paint. Hood, an example of what he has termed his “capital realism” style, explores the conflict between the authority of the police and the position of the people. An image appropriated from the newspaper represents the scene of an arrest. Richter mediates the implications of the image by using a gesture of red paint to visually pull back on the suspect’s crime, calling for recognition of his innocence before guilt has been proven.