We (E.A & I) watched the new Gerhard Richter doc."Gerhard Richter Painting" @ Cinema du Parc last night, both sensual & serious. Maybe 40 people in the room, all watching a painter painting.
A strong sense of tension ran through the film, mainly because of Richter's deep vibration of conviction.
"One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself
inwardly, in order to do painting. Once obsessed, one ultimately carries
it to the point of believing that one might change human beings through
painting. But if one lacks this passionate commitment, there is nothing
left to do. Then it is best to leave it alone. For basically painting
is idiocy.” (From Richter, "Notes 1973", in The Daily Practice of Painting, p. 78.)
