A link to the art collection of (IMO) one of the most important painters of the last 50 years, I saw exhibitions in both the NY Museum of Modern art (MOMA) and the SF MOMA and was sufficiently impressed, in some of the works there is a curious mix of both photo realism and abstraction which for which aperspectival seems a suitable if non-Texan-like adjective


http://www.gerhard-richter.com/art/index.php

From the web site:

Beauty in the Ordinary

Unlike American artists Richter wasn't interested in the purity of art. Idealism had disillusioned him from an early age. Instead he painted images without glory; images that rendered the ridiculous, ordinary; the tragic, ordinary; the beautiful, ordinary. Throughout his career Richter has shrunk from giving a psychological insight into his art, leaving his admirers and critics guessing and at times confused. According to him, his work forms from structures and ideas that surround him, nothing more profound than that.