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Artist a Day:  Sigmar Polke

Sigmar Polke  (1941–2010)

Sigmar Polke was a German artist and painter who created various styles, experimenting with different topics.

Mao

Sigmars Works

Figurative, Pop Art, New European Painting, 1972

Aurora

Sigmars Works

Figurative, New European Painting, 2000

What was the style of Sigmar Polke?

Polke developed a radical new style of painting based on what he had learned from his traveling.

Der dritte Stand

Sigmars Works

Figurative, New European Painting, 1995

Rather than painting on canvas, he turned to synthetic fabrics already printed with colors and patterns he felt was in conversation with his process.

S.H. und die Liebe zum Stoff

Sigmars Works

Figurative, New European Painting, 2000

Untitled (Lens Painting)

Sigmars Works

Abstract, New European Painting, 2007

Polke often chooses punny titles that refer to how Polke did the work and what materials he used.

Chocolate Painting (Schokoladenbild)

Sigmars Works

Figurative, Pop Art, 1964

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Arrow

The Plant

Sigmars Works

Abstract, New European Painting

"The convention definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing"

Untitled (Doppelportrat)

Sigmars Works

Figurative, New European Painting

"When I came to the West, I saw many, many things for the first time. But I also saw the prosperity of the West critically. I t wasn't really heaven."

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Sigmars Works

Figurative, New European Painting