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Daniel Richter — The Decorative Immigrant
Daniel Richter

The Decorative Immigrant

2015

Daniel Richter's "The Decorative Immigrant" is a large-scale oil on canvas work that exemplifies the German painter's bold, expressive style, combining vivid, clashing colors with dynamic figuration. The painting features anonymous human forms immersed in a turbulent, psychedelic landscape, blurring the boundaries between the decorative and the political. Richter uses his signature visual intensity to comment on themes of displacement, identity, and the dehumanizing tendency to reduce complex human experiences to mere aesthetic elements.

Medium
oil on canvas

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

March 9, 2018

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Daniel Richter, The Decorative Immigrant, 2015

Daniel Richter's "The Decorative Immigrant" is a large-scale oil on canvas work that exemplifies the German painter's bold, expressive style, combining vivid, clashing colors with dynamic figuration. The painting features anonymous human forms immersed in a turbulent, psychedelic landscape, blurring the boundaries between the decorative and the political. Richter uses his signature visual intensity to comment on themes of displacement, identity, and the dehumanizing tendency to reduce complex human experiences to mere aesthetic elements.

Medium
oil on canvas
Year
2015
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

German Artist, Figurative Painting, Contemporary Painter, Unsettling Mood, Male Artist, Figurative Expressionism, Large Scale Painting, Contemporary Artist, Political Commentary, Large Format, 21st Century, Narrative Composition, Early 2000s, Established Artist, Political Narrative, Vivid Colors, Social Critique, Neo-Expressionism, Oil on Canvas

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