From meticulously rendered photo paintings to bold abstract works using a large squeegee instead of a paintbrush. Gerhard Richter is arguably the most famous painter today. He shifts from a photographic realism with a blurred effect to pure abstraction as no other artist has ever done before. His oeuvre is the result of an ongoing examination of painting as a medium. Richter's impressive career spans across over half a century and has been a certainty in today's art world. But how did a boy from Dresden become one of the greatest artists in the world to wield a paintbrush? Welcome to the story of Gerhard Richter.

News that two people who had a harrowing break-up are now trying to get back together again a few months or years down the line tends, among sensible people, to raise at the very least suspicion, if not outright irritation and despair. Why are these two cursed lovers heading back to the old chaos and drama? Isn't this just a fantasy sprung from naivety, loneliness and most probably short-term lust? Shouldn't they keep faith with their original choice, double down on the highs and lows of dating and perhaps each buy a dog? And yet, to deny ex-couples any legitimate chance to revisit their situation also feels excessively punitive and in its way naïve, insisting blindly that people can never change, that psychotherapy and introspection, books and conversations, time and long walks have nothing whatsoever to teach us, is as foolish as to assume that change can come readily and lightly. For every misguided attempt to resume a relationship, there must be a proportion of equally misguided refusals to countenance a new start, born not out of wisdom so much as pre-emptive fear and disbelief that people are, occasionally, able to learn a new thing or two. We need to make progress a tool with which to strip the matter of sentiment and rationally distinguish mature from sentimental plans. What follows is a sequence of questions, amounting to a kind of examination, that exes who are meeting up again after a long break should discuss with one another – and as importantly, with themselves – before coming anywhere near to holding hands, let alone – and here we must be very definitive – going to bed.

I heard you went for a physical examination yesterday.

After the examination, I was able to surface clean the painting.

When the earthquake struck Buddhist monks were taking an exam in an examination hall and the floors collapsed one on top of the other trapping them underneath these concrete blocks.

to suffer the discomfort of significant self-examination.”

Sure Hello I'm here to take the annual health examination Okay Please go to room 404 and wait for your turn It's on the right-hand side There Hello, doctor Hello Sit down, please, and I'll examine you Okay Can you open your mouth and say, eh?

So, last night's cross-examination had so much drama that we had to split this video into two parts.

And that brings us to the end of our extensive OET listening examination.

First, they analyze the print and the surface it's on to see if it's viable for examination.