Gerhard Richter always had a particular interest in landscape, even though he most well known for his photo-based works. This painting indicates how painting now draws from and references many other media; painting now embraces photography (instead of seeing it as a threat); the use of appropriation in painting is now seen as expansive rather than as representing depletion; there has been a return to romanticism and pleasure in painting; and women are now included in the broader discussion of painting.

I never really understood the death of painting debate, or rather it passed me by. I appreciate that modernism devalued painting and photography and scaled them down. Is that what is meant by the end of painting? The failure of painting? Is that why painter's paint reproductions---to reveal paintings bankruptcy? Painting is killed by photography and video? So they make paintings about the failures and limitations of painting?