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I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with a painting that consisted of 4,096 colour fields. initially i was attracted by the typical pop art aestheticism of using standard colour-sample cards; i preferred the unartistic, tasteful and secular illustration of the different tones to the paintings of albers, bill, calderara, lohse, etc.
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I First Came Up With The Idea

Gerhard Richter
I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in 1974 with a painting that consisted of 4,096 colour fields. initially i was attracted by the typical pop art aestheticism of using standard colour-sample cards; i preferred the unartistic, tasteful and secular illustration of the different tones to the paintings of albers, bill, calderara, lohse, etc.
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The first colour charts were unsystematic. they were based directly on commercial colour samples. they were still related to pop art. in the canvases that followed, the colours were chosen arbitrarily and drawn by chance. then, 180 tones were mixed according to a given system and drawn by chance to make four variations of 180 tones. but after that the number 180 seemed too arbitrary to me, so i developed a system based on a number of rigorously defined tones and proportions.
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