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Sigmar Polke
Encyclopedia of World Biography; 700+ Words Sigmar Polke German artist Sigmar Polke (born 1941) has boldly ventured to creative realms where few have dared to tread. As a result, he has had a great influence on young American artists, especially in the 1980s. With an ironic, mocking...
Sigmar Polke's vivid images of the pictures that vanish: Corcoran exhibit is trip to place of terrifying dreams.(Arts)(Art)
The Washington Times; Oct 6, 1996; ; 700+ Words Experiencing "Sigmar Polke Photoworks: When Pictures Vanish...Thuringen, Germany. Then, when Mr. Polke was 12, they crossed over to West...in Dusseldorf. From the age of 5, Sigmar Polke drew plants he collected, learning...
PHOTO REFINISHED; At the Corcoran, Sigmar Polke's Subversive Vision
The Washington Post; Sep 29, 1996; ; 700+ Words The conjunction sounds unlikely but Sigmar Polke is a magical postmodernist. Polke, 55, is an art star. He's taught in all...woods. If you listen to the secret sounds in "Sigmar Polke Photoworks: When Pictures Vanish," his big...
Las viejas de Polke.(Sigmar Polke, pintor)(TT: Polke's old ones.)(TA: Sigmar Polke, painter)
Tribuna de Actualidad; May 1, 2000; ; 700+ Words En 1982, Sigmar Polke descubri un cuadro que cambiara su...su obra en conjunto. La exposicin Sigmar Polke. Die alten, formada por 50 obras...repercusin de este hallazgo en el alemn. Sigmar Polke (Oels, Alemania, 1941) inicia su...
From Zero to Infinity.(exhibition of Sigmar Polke's work in Hamburg, Germany)
Art in America; Sep 1, 1999; ; 700+ Words A show (now in Hamburg) of Sigmar Polke's early works on paper, including a suite of freewheeling...face of the recent Museum of Modern Art exhibition "Sigmar Polke: Works on Paper 1963-1974," it's easy to forget...
Arts: Polke dots before the eyes The work of the Pop Art prankster Sigmar Polke is being shown in London for the first time in 15 years. He may have turned his back on drink and drugs, but his paintings remain as elusive, eclectic and droll as ever.
The Independent - London; Dec 19, 2000; ; 700+ Words ...last week, on the eve of the opening of the first show Sigmar Polke has had in London for about 15 years. Not that I...been told that he didn't want to be interviewed. Sigmar Polke, who is almost 60 years old now and is Germany's...
Visual Art: Just join the dots up for 200 years of art history Sigmar Polke Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
The Independent - London; Jan 28, 2001; ; 700+ Words ...those of you familiar enough with Sigmar Polke to titter knowingly at the old...ingenious and pretty: although whether Sigmar Polke would thank you for saying so is another question. `Sigmar Polke: Music of Unclear Origin': Scottish...
23=6; In the Perplexing World of Sigmar Polke, Nothing Quite Adds Up
The Washington Post; Feb 17, 1991; ; 700+ Words Sometimes Sigmar Polke's art is celestially mysterious...that surround it. In the world of Sigmar Polke, nothing quite adds up. Were Polke...s as if it were alive. So who is Sigmar Polke? Is he goof or wizard, a dullard...
Sigmar Polke: Dallas Museum of Art. (Reviews).
Artforum International; May 1, 2003; ; 700+ Words ...like Malevich or Daniel Buren. Sigmar Polke accepts neither role. He occasionally...refusing to look and think. Nor does Polke accept the know-it-all pose...R. Lane and Charles Wylie, "Sigmar Polke" featured sixty-three paintings...
Sigmar Polke: ghosts in the machine: in his new "Lens Paintings," Polke reprises, and compounds, long-favored themes: gestural painting and mechanical reproduction, transparency and illusion, science and magic.(VENICE 09)
Art in America; Sep 1, 2009; ; 700+ Words ...reopening of the Reichstag in Berlin, Sigmar Polke started experimenting with various...It is plenty. In fact, one of Polke's most important themes is plentitude...paintings constitutes a sort of summa of Polke's work, reprising the casual paint...
Sigmar Polke: Michael Werner.
Artforum International; Feb 1, 2007; ; 700+ Words Sigmar Polke's long-standing fascination with amber...striations varies as a result of the process Polke invented to coax the resins to resemble...like apparitions only momentarily visible. Polke's painterly involvement with the chance...
Sigmar Polke at Michael Werner.(NEW YORK)
Art in America; May 1, 2007; ; 700+ Words In "Polke--Bernstein--Amber," his first New York exhibition in eight years, Sigmar Polke showed paintings dating from 1985 to 2006...literally spanning the ages. Considering Polke's interest in history, art history...
Sigmar Polke at Michael Werner.(Brief Article)
Art in America; Apr 1, 1999; ; 700+ Words These new works by German artist Sigmar Polke are straight-forwardly titled...David Salle and Julian Schnabel, Polke never gained an enormous following...versions of newspaper printing errors. Polke transfers these glitches to canvas...
Clothes make the canvas. (works of artist Sigmar Polke)
Artforum International; Nov 1, 1994; ; 700+ Words ...is among the 20 or so works that Sigmar Polke painted specifically for his show...Nimes. At the start of the '80s, Polke gave his work an unprecedented push...name not usually associated with Polke's (and the two artists are indeed...
Sigmar Polke. (Preview).
Artforum International; Sep 1, 2002; ; 385 Words ...artist, but of his generation it's Sigmar Polke who produces just about the only...high level of curiosity about what Polke's been up to lately. Included...catalogue promises a good dose of Polke source material. Expect to see it...
Sigmar Polke: On Goya.(Brief Article)
Artforum International; Jan 1, 2000; ; 543 Words ...Fouquet to Kuniyoshi gets quoted, Sigmar Polke's resurrections of Goya have a...images often live in the very weave of Polke's work, quite literally so with...special focus on the 1812 Las Viejas. Polke, with familiar alchemical magic...
GEORG BASELITZ/ANSELM KIEFER/SIGMAR POLKE.(art by Germans exhibited in United Kingdom)
Artforum International; Feb 1, 2001; ; 700+ Words ...at Gagosian and Anselm Kiefer and Sigmar Polke successively at Anthony d'Offay...aesthetically reactionary) as well as Polke, Richter, and Lupertz. The dealers...distancing, even playful effects of Polke and Richter. The German moment of...
Polke.(Sigmar Polke )(Brief article)
Art Monthly; May 1, 2007; 443 Words Sigmar Polke has been selected for the quintennial Rubens art prize, which culminates in an exhibition of new work by the artist at the Museum...
MOMA shows Sigmar Polke through June 16
Sunday Gazette-Mail; Apr 25, 1999; ; 300 Words ...and contemporary sort are on view at the recently opened Sigmar Polke exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Everything...200-plus piece show, devoted to the early period of Polke's work between 1963 and 1974, includes his spectacular...
Gerhard Richter: the day is long: in a conversation with the curator of his forthcoming retrospective, Gerhard Richter looks back on his 40 years as an artist. From his boyhood in East Germany, through his student days in Dusseldorf with Sigmar Polke, Blinky Palermo and others, to the...
Art in America; Jan 1, 2002; ; 700+ Words ...fell in with three other students, Sigmar Polke and Blinky Palermo, also refugees...dealer Konrad Fischer. With Lueg and Polke, Richter shared an active interest...also involving the collaboration of Polke and another friend, Manfred Kuttner...
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