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Pixel art before pixel’s even existed. This is Gerhard Richter’s 1974 painting, 4096 Farben (“colours”). Starting in the 1960s, Richter made a series of paintings inspired by the colour swatches he saw at his local paint shop. It was a way to reduce painting down to its fundamental elements. This work became the last, and largest, of the series. 4096 Farben feels derivative now, because we are so used to seeing pixel art and shapes. But fifty years ago it was a radical departure, although preced

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