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Untitled (Landscape)

A work made of acrylic on ivory wove paper.
© 2018 Estate of Sigmar Polke/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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  • A work made of acrylic on ivory wove paper.

Date:

1967

Artist:

Sigmar Polke
German, 1941-2010

About this artwork

Untitled (Landscape) is one Sigmar Polke’s many Rasterbild (raster pattern) paintings, which echo the mechanical printing processes of photography. By using a CMYK color palette (a color-printing model using cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) and spraying acrylic paint through a stencil, he created raster-dots that are more visible than the image they make up, undermining the veracity of the mass-produced image. This landscape image, despite being secondary to the raster-dots of the foreground, alludes to 19th-century Romanticist and Impressionist paintings. Untitled (Landscape) explores the relationship between a seemingly soulless, mass-produced future and the romanticized, yet equally fabricated, past.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Sigmar Polke

Title

Untitled (Landscape)

Place

Germany (Object made in:)

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1967

Medium

Acrylic on ivory wove paper

Dimensions

70 × 100 cm (27 9/16 × 39 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Margaret Fisher Endowment

Reference Number

1997.67

Copyright

© 2018 Estate of Sigmar Polke/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

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