
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
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
March 9, 2018
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