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.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Sigmar Polke
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Title
- Untitled (Landscape)
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Place
- Germany (Object made in:)
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Date
- 1967
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Medium
- Acrylic on ivory wove paper
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Dimensions
- 70 × 100 cm (27 9/16 × 39 3/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Margaret Fisher Endowment
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Reference Number
- 1997.67
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Copyright
- © 2018 Estate of Sigmar Polke/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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