Hello, I am Gerhard Richter and I am the top selling living artist. Through my long life I have gone through many stages of my art, and I have undermined the popular concept that an artist must maintain a similar artistic style throughout my life. Everyday I wake up at 6:15 and do stuff around the house for the kids, but my art starts at 1 pm everyday. I make plans for every piece that I have made, and in any given day I may not paint at all. Earlier in my career, I became famous with my photo painting series.

Heres an example of one of my most successful photo paintings. One of the major techniques I employed in my paintings was the blur. I used to project a painting onto a canvas and replicate the photo exactly, then employ the blur effect. This photorealist period of my life was very long, and allowed me to explore how a viewer interprets a real scene, but with some unusual aspects such as the blur that made me famous. here is an example of the blur:

I do my best to replicate a photo almost exactly. Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity of painting a valid, true picture.