Sigmar Polke

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Highly acclaimed for his persistent use of unorthodox materials and his experiment across a wide range of styles and subject matters, Sigmar Polke was a painter and photographer as well as a founding member of the Capitalist Realism painting movement.

Untitled (Columbus In Search Of A New Tomorrow)

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Among Polke's most acclaimed paintings is Bunnies, a piece that uses the ‘dot’ technique popularised by Pop Artists such as Lichtenstein; succinctly showcasing Polke’s wry sense of irony, this painting on first appearances seems to depict an attractive group of women dressed provocatively in the style of Playboy bunnies, but upon closer inspection the faces of the women are grotesquely distorted by a set of coloured circles.

« I began drawing as a very young child and had a grandfather who experimented with photography, so those things constituted my first exposure to art. »
Sigmar Polke

Polke began to use a range of alchemical materials in his paintings throughout the 80’s - meteor dust, smoke, a mucous produced by snails, as well as Read More

Germany / male artist / Capitalist Realism / Appropriation / Pop art / Process Art / Performance art

ARTWORKS BY Sigmar Polke

Sigmar Polke

Untitled (Columbus In Search Of A New Tomorrow), 1992

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Sigmar Polke

Tisch Mit Umgekippter Kanne I, 1970

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Sigmar Polke

Mu Nieltnam Netorruprup., 1975

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What is Capitalist Realism?

Capitalist realism is a German form of political pop art which sought to challenge the influence American pop art had developed in the Western world. The Cold War era Berlin movement began in 1963, and represented the ideologies of both pop art and socialist realism.

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