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Sigmar Polke (1941-2010)

Untitled, 2001-6

German Artist, Sigmar Polke died last night after a bout with cancer. He along with Gerhard Richter and Konrad Lueg founded “Capitalist Realism” in the early 60s as a reaction to Socialist Realism and Pop Art. Over the years he produced a wide variety of art, mostly painting and photography, but in many different materials and modes of operation. [I’ll add to this later as I want to get the stories right.]

Unfortunately, SFMOMA recently deinstalled several of his works that were part of their 75 anniversary exhibit that focused on select artist, but maybe they’ll put one back up somewhere.

The painting above is from Michael Werners website.