Picture "Purple Gifts" (2002)
Picture "Purple Gifts" (2002)
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limited, 70 copies | numbered | signed | dated | colour offset lithograph and colour serigraph on cardboard | unframed | size 70 x 50 cm
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Picture "Purple Gifts" (2002)
Original colour offset lithograph and colour serigraph, 2002. Edition: 70 copies on cardboard, signed, numbered and dated by hand. Unframed. Sheet size 70 x 50 cm.
Producer: ARTES Kunsthandelsgesellschaft mbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hannover, Deutschland, E-Mail: [email protected]
About Sigmar Polke
1941-2010
Sigmar Polke, born in Oels, Silesia, is considered one of the most important painters of the present day. International exhibitions and retrospectives in San Francisco, New York, Bonn and Berlin as well as important awards such as the Golden Lion of the 42nd Venice Biennale praise his work.
Together with Gerhard Richter, he proclaimed "Capitalist Realism" during their time at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1963. They developed a specifically German version of American Pop Art, with which they took aimed the mustiness of the Adenauer years.
Unlike his American colleges, he didn’t use Brillo boxes. Instead, Polke adapted motifs from the German magazine "Bäckerblume" (eng.: baker’s flower), and instead of working with screen-printing techniques, he painted his grid pictures dot by dot by hand. From the beginning, style and motif quotations played an important role for him. He used media images, illustrations and comics.
With humour and irony, Sigmar Polke commented in his works on the bourgeois and political appearances of the affluent society. Former German Minister of State and Representative of the Federal Government for Culture Bernd Neumann paid tribute to Sigmar Polke: "He was a critical, ironic and self-deprecating observer of post-war history and its artistic commentator."
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy, among others.
In the early 1950s, a movement took over the cultural scene. Young artists from the U.S. and the UK independently broke with all traditions of artistic creativity, giving rise to a new art movement in modern art.
In the U.S., Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and James Rosenquist who were seeking their themes in the world of advertising and comics, in star cult and anonymous urban culture. With bright colours, over dimensioning and manipulating depth perspective, they created new provocative works. Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi became pioneers of Pop Art in England through the famous "This is Tomorrow" at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery. In the 1960s, they were followed by David Hockney, Allan Jones, Peter Phillips and Derek Boshier.