How To Paint Like Gerhard Richter 

Thats awesome to hear!

David Lillecrapp Thanks for the comment and the kind words. And I agree the movie itself is stunning.

Cliff DaRiff Thanks for the kind words! It’s funny how it’s all the most boring old-school stuff that works.

Uriel-Thanks for the response and the correction. He mentioned seeing contraband Vietnam War photos so I assumed that’s what the photo was of. Strangely enough, I thought the context was largely the same-that it was photos of soldiers involved in one of the many village massacres. Anyway, thanks for the context and I’ll put a link to your comment in the description.

+solis Thanks for watching and the kind words.

+Bryan Coombes Thanks for the comment. I was thinking about the music thing again yesterday as I was designing a piece and realized I use headphones to block the world out but then screw it up with music.

Hi Dave Pickard, thanks for the kind words, glad you enjoyed it.

Art Joolfy Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you! I haven’t look at Kiefer’s work in a long time. I’ll check out that doc.

also here on youtube they have a doc on Anselm Kiefer I just watched. very intimate, he creates a city in the south of France, awesome a must see. He lets few people into his world @ little over an hour run time it's worth watching and current work as well as past, enjoy. Peace n good day

+zenidith Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it.

How did I never reply to this?! Waterworld rules AND is a debacle.

+Art On Main I have issues, what can I say?

Lis Engel Hi, thanks for the comment. Yes, would be nice to get a better view. I’ll dig up the presentation and put up a link to it. Thanks!

Alejandro Morales I thought it was! Reading comment waiting for the instruction. 1. Turn up..

+Edena Kruse Thanks for the note.

This sounds like you didn't actually watch the video but commented based off the title. So I guess I agree with you.

WILDKOALA10 I think its less about working full-time than disciplined dedication to your craft. Even if you only have Tuesday night from 8-10pm to work on your art then you go do it week in and week out. I agree that talent and luck play a role but consistency and production are too often overlooked.

Joshua Namdev Hardisty in fact I put consistency at first place among the qualities/virtues.I said"constant in what someone does"

One day, we’ll make this happen for you.

Hey Suzannah, unfortunately at the time I had no idea it was being recorded! Glad you enjoyed the video.

Ha, “water off a duck’s back’ as they say. But thanks for the comment!

“This is a typical HOW TO.” It's awesome that you were able to watch this video and get something out of it that no one else was able to. Was there some discussion of technique sandwiched between the parts about doing your laundry and James Franco that I forgot about?

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Hey, thanks for the thoughtful comment! I try to keep the music to anything that I've heard a million times but I'm not super disciplined about it. Glad you enjoyed the video.

Woody’s a G, what can I say?

That's the smartest shortcut

Pat Sart Is there a stand-up whose signature is saying “like” too much? If not, there might be a lane for me!

+Joshua Namdev Hardisty RU-vid is a tough place to be :-) some people seems to go here when they're having a bad day and need to trash someone/something.

Terry Berry Touché

Blue Arbor Glad you liked it! Yes, I’m pre-occupied with drugs. They seem like a good measure of both success and ones ability to destroy their work.

That’s how I talk for better or worse. It’s a style of speaking that’s hard-wired based on how one’s brain accesses information.

Yes, this seems to be a constant habit today and especially more noticeable in the younger generations. [I believe it's due to an effect of exposure of hearing others speak this way constantly. Accepted by sounding identical to their other surrounding peers. It also seems to simplify an element of frustration in their general speaking. [I don't hear Joshua using the word like as every other second, as others have mentioned here; it's not quite that often, and his lecture here is beautifully accomplished.] When I'm in restaurants, and can hear younger people, especially young males speaking, you can't help but notice that they use the word 'like' as much as 20 or 30 times within 30 seconds of chattering. It's also interjected with the 'f' word constantly, or the sentence will even start with the 'f' word. It just doesn't sound intelligent or professional. It sounds like it stems from an emotional disorder of our hyped up world today, due the to the technology. It has been noted by doctors today that those who stare too much at cell phones are just an extension of what the television generation was that I experienced as a child, in the 1960s. [It's also possibly why I found observing through my first astronomy telescope that I purchased with my berry picking money at age 13, much more gratifying, than watching a television screen.] Child psychologist had remarked back in the late 1960s that they wouldn't recommend parents to allow their children to watch Sesame Street. The doctors contended that the picture was flipping and changing too fast in edits. This resulted in the child developing a symptom of ADHD from watching the screen flip too fast. The doctors did however suggest to allow watching Mr Rogers Neighborhood, as it was delivered at a much slower rate and with less of the screen edits flipping. This condition today seems to have resulted in many male youth that engage in speed racing on the streets - it's being driven by the sped-up technology. Famous consumer advocate, Jerry Mander, famous for his book Rour Arguments for the Elimination of Television, mansions in another one of his books, In Absence of the Sacred - The Failure of Technology, on page 84, a subchapter title - Perceptual Speed-up and Confusion. It's shocking to read the way he describes what happens to the average viewer as they watch a television screen especially during evening primetime when more commercial advertisements are played on the screen. He describes it in the words you see people walking on a distant hill, - cut - that sounds like they're speaking right next to you - cut - Now You See a group of young people jumping up and down playing volleyball on a beach - cut - now you see hands pouring a glass of beer -cut - now it's yesterday - cut- now it's tomorrow - cut - now you're in Rome - cut - now you're in Paris - cut - .... These are what Mander describes as technical edits that can only be accomplished through television technology. After hours of viewing this the viewer becomes fatigued and turns the TV off. They look around in the room, and nothing is moving or changing at such a rapid speed. If you are now walks outside and it seems very slow and boring except for the waving of a leaf on a tree blowing in the wind. By comparison real nature now appears as boring and uninteresting and all the viewer can think of, is to get back inside, get the TV set turned back on, and get back up to speed. This process has drained our younger generations today into a description that doctors diagnose as a video-void, as like zombies or or eventually appearing as brain dead. I've been asked and invited to speak many times in classrooms and colleges and in public places about my astronomy art, that's a format of large technical pastel sketches, that I produce from observations, through my telescopes, which have been published many times by NASA. I never use the word 'like' when I'm speaking. We may notice that those of us in the older generations today are about the same with this word usage, as we constantly have something precise and varied to say, so there's no reason to interject the word 'like' or 'f' 20 or 30 times within 30 seconds. However, I did enjoy this lecture about Gerhard Richter's life and painting scheduling.

+OUT ON THE PORCH Try watching the video before you comment. Anyone who watches the video knows that the title is a joke.

Don’t worry, your secrets are safe with me. Also, yes, my uptalk is annoying.

+Philip Hunter Very helpful. Will only talk about sub-themes next time.

+Joshua Namdev Hardisty , your seminar clearly explains the work regime and ethics of Gerhard which is an eye opener for most people . I must add that success breeds success. Artists whose works sell frequently for large sums are inspired to get up at 6am each day and begin working. It is the magic lure of the dollar.

+Philip Hunter I think most people stop getting up 6 once they begin to make big money. Richter strikes me as an exception as he does not appear to believe that he’s “earned” the right to slow down or take it easy.

Please clarify.

Why should one paint like Ricter... He is a wonderfull inspiring artist Butt I am not him ...I am I...I shall du my Art...

Grete Lis Bibalo Why are you commenting on videos that you haven’t watched?

It’s called “filler speech”. Per The Independent (www.independent.co.uk/news/science/people-who-say-like-all-the-time-may-be-deeper-thinkers-9529705.html): “...psychologists claim it [filler speech] is in fact an attempt to convey something in a more nuanced way and signals a conscientious person with complex thoughts to express. In an article in The Journal of Language and Social Psychology, the researchers explain: ‘The possible explanation for this association is that conscientious people are generally more thoughtful and aware of themselves and their surroundings. When having conversations with listeners, conscientious people use discourse markers, such as ‘I mean’ and ‘you know,’ to imply their desire to share or rephrase opinions to recipients. Thus it is expected that the use of discourse markers may be used to measure the degree to which people have thoughts to express.‘ The research essentially posits that people who use a lot of "filler speech" are constantly re-drafting as they speak and desire to transfer thought into speech in the most accurate way possible. ‘Discourse fillers are a sign of more considered speech, and so it makes sense that conscientious people use them more often,’ psychologist Christian Jarrett writes.” So I’m just keeping it conscientious over here.

Oh it was in an article in a newspaper must be true then. Well that's told me, dagnabbit!! :)

It just sounds better coming from a 3rd party, right? I mean, its the Independent so it is a trash publication.

I think the overuse of the word "like" has more to do with habit than deep thinking and is ingrained in certain dialects.

I think you can imagine how I wouldn’t want to believe this. : ) BUT, I’d also add that if I don’t say “like” you’ll just hear a lot of pauses in my speech. I do actually prefer that but the point would be that I am definitely wired to process what I’m saying in that sort of way. I’m amazed by people who speak fluidly without filler speech or constant spaces.

I thought it was pretty accurate. Otherwise you just need to go to a hardcore socialist realism art school in the USSR (maybe North Korea would work now) then take your crazy painting skills over to the West and follow every weird idea that you have- photorealism of photos; grey paintings, color swatch paintings, paintings over photos, photographing your paintings, inventing new painting tools - for the next 61 years.

@@NamdevHardisty1 I just meant that there's not really that much in it that shows how to paint like Richter

Glad you enjoyed, ha ha.

I agree, its painful.

@@NamdevHardisty1 Try to be dismissive if you want but it's really bad.

+slumber56 Ha ha, I’ll pretend like I didn’t read this. Thanks for the comment.