Portraits Ripe with Emotion

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SINCE the 1960s, Gerhard Richter has produced blurry paintings of photographic portraits which evoke the melancholy of fading memories and passing emotions. This exhibition of Richter's famous portraiture, from the 1960s to the present day, doesn't break any new ground -- some of us may be overly familiar with the subject, or maybe like me, you never tire of this work.

Still, it is delightful, even exhilarating, in its own modest way.

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Portraits Ripe with Emotion

The visitor wanders through four rooms of black and white paintings of blurry anonymous snapshots and newspaper photos, punctuated by colour portraits in the corridor, befo...

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