Sigmar Polke
Sigmar
Polke grew up in East Germany. After moving with his family to West Germany,
settling in Wittich, he studied glass painting from 1959 to 1960 at Dusseldorf
Kaiserwerth and then transferred to the Academy of Art. With fellow student
Gerhard Richter he formulated a Pop inspired "Capital Realist"
anti-style of art, appropriating the pictorial short-hand of advertising. The
anarchistic element of the work Polke developed was largely engendered by his
mercurial approach. His irreverence for traditional painting techniques and
materials and his lack of allegiance to any one mode of representation has
established his now-respected reputation as a visual revolutionary. Paganini,
an expression of "the difficulty of purging the demons of Nazism" -
witness the "hidden" swastikas - is typical of Polke's tendency to
accumulate a range of different mediums within one canvas. It is not unusual
for Polke to combine household materials and paint, lacquers, pigments, screen
print and transparent sheeting in one piece. A complicated
"narrative" is often implicit in the multi-layered picture, giving
the effect of witnessing the projection of a hallucination or dream through a
series of veils.
My reasons why I came to be so interested in his work was because I found out that he used techniques that allowed him to portray an image over an image; which was my intention throughout this project. Most of his pieces of work aren't as quite as good as compared to his expression works like the referral to Nazism. However, the thing that interested me the most whilst looking at his work was the fact that he used a larger scale in his work and how he interpreted three multiple pieces together but still made them flow through each one more effectively.
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