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  • Time and again, natural phenomena form the starting point for the painterly exploration of their overwhelming manifestations and the question of how best to represent nature by means of painting. During his stays in Étretat on the French Atlantic coast, Courbet painted manifold variations on the powerfully surging breaking waves with their foamy spray. While in Courbet’s work, the motif of nature becomes a compelling symbol of his efforts to create a new, realistic depiction of nature, Zao Wou-Ki’s almost entirely abstract paintings penetrate right into the heart of nature and seek to capture its quintessence through painting. In Gerhard Richter’s ›Wolken‹ (Clouds), in contrast, a blurred painted detail of a photograph serves as a foil for regarding the copied image and the essence of painting as >second nature.< Morris Louis’ monumental poured painting is only remotely reminiscent of natural phenomena and—via abstraction and associative connections—returns to the depiction of natural forces as seen in the works of his counterparts.
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