He began his work in the early 60s and since then he has enriched the art world with myriads of paintings that expand through different techniques and movements. Since the beginning of his career till this day, his work has alternated between photorealistic and abstract paintings. Richter’s photorealistic paintings are famous for the blurring he applied in order to express the thought that artists can never fully reproduce the subject in its original form and that there is always something lost in transition from model to canvas. Because of this effect, those paintings give away a sense of melancholy and gloom. On the other hand, his abstract work is usually done in bright and vibrant colors. Brush strokes and paint layering are purposely visible, and he is both praised and criticized for this viewpoint.