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Cloud: Gerhard Richter, 1976, oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm (Gerhard Richter Art)
It is a very beautiful day. The woman looks around and thinks: “there cannot ever have been a spring more beautiful than this. I did not know until now that clouds could be like this. I did not know that the sky is the sea and that clouds are the souls of happy ships, sunk long ago. I did not know that the wind could be tender, like hands as they caress -- what did I know –- until now?"
Unica Zürn (1916-1970): from Dark Spring (Dunkler Frühling), 1954, English translation by Caroline Rupprecht, 2000
Clouds: Gerhard Richter, 1970, oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm (Museum Folkwang, Essen / Gerhard Richter Art)
Someone moving them?
An invisible hand.
Clouds: Gerhard Richter, 1978, oil on paper, 400 x 250 cm (K20 Kunstsammlung, Düsseldorf / Gerhard Richter Art)
The cloud will never be any older.
Later this morning, this afternoon, it will have moved, drifted, changed shape.
Its age, at this moment, in this place, in this shape, is exactly zero.
Its age, at this moment, in this place, in this shape, is exactly zero.
That is, infinite.
There is no such thing as an old cloud.
Cloud: Gerhard Richter, 1970, oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm(National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa / (Gerhard Richter Art)
No one knows where the cloud has been, what it has passed over, what it has seen.
No one knows how the cloud feels.
Cloud: Gerhard Richter, 1970, oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm(National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa / (Gerhard Richter Art)
The saddest-looking cloud is not really sad.
The angriest-looking cloud is not really angry.
The most-cheerful-looking cloud is not really happy.
The most-cheerful-looking cloud is not really happy.
No one ever wandered lonely as a cloud.
The loneliest-looking cloud is not really lonely.
The most exhausted-looking cloud may have just had a good night's rest.
Cloud: Gerhard Richter, 1970, oil on canvas, 200 x 300 cm (National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa / Gerhard Richter Art)
Clouds (Window): Gerhard Richter, 1970, oil on canvas, 200 x 400 cm (Essl Museum Klosterneuberg, Vienna /(Gerhard Richter Art)
Clouds: Gerhard Richter, 1970, oil on canvas, 170 x 170 cm (Gerhard Richter Art)