"I got the blues", original color print, signed and numbered by Polke (7/40)

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Sigmar Polke
"I got the blues", original color print, signed and numbered by Polke (7/40)
2008

About the Item

Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) was one of the most important german artists of the late 20th century. In 1961 he joined with Manfred Kuttner, Konrad Lueg and Gerhard Richter the class of Karl Otto Götz at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and these four upcoming artists presented their latest works in 1963 in their self-curated exhibition to bring the newest art movements from oversea and Paris to Germany. On the invitation cards they printed the terminologies „Pop Art, Junk Culture, Nouveau Realisme, Common Object Painting, Neo Dada, New Vulgarismus, Antikunst, Know-Nothing-Genre“ and they proclaimed for themselves to be the first artists to show Pop Art, independently developed in Germany, not just as a copy or an American import. But Polke showed right from the beginning an ironic distance to the sociocritical style of his combatants, that will run through his entire Oeuvre. Influenced by the Fluxus and Neo Dada scene around Joseph Beuys, Daniel Spoerri, Dick Higgins and others in the early 1960s, Polke developed his own style characterized by an anarchic mind and esprit. Similar to the Pop Art Polke searched for the aesthetic in the trivial but here too he simultaneously disavowed the trivial through irony. Very typical for Polke are the famous grid images, known from newspaper printings, where we have horizontal, uniform lines of small dots and by combining certain dots there arises a form. By using perforated sheets and airbrush he could overlay more monochrome grids to create vibrating images and he often played in the printing process with enforced mistakes and errors to disassemble the firm surface of an image to a process of decomposition. Next to the irony and anarchy other keywords to his works are heterogeneity, poly-perspectivity and multivalent metamorphoses in which every reality could be something possibly different at the same time. A world where everything is connected, not by fundamental unity, but by fragmentary dispersion. Because there is no one true reality, he transfers his works in an intermediate state of transformability. I got the blues (2008) Serigraphy 55 x 75 cm (sheet-size) 56.5 x 76.4 cm (frame-size) Original wooden frame (white) by the workshop of the Gallery Heinz Holtmann, Schüller, Eifel, Germany Edition of 40, signed, dated and numbered (7/40) by hand. Not yet in Cat. Raisonné. (Edit. von der Osten). The print "I got the blues" shows an old man sitting on a stool, leaning against a wall, obviously tired with his chin on his chest on the right side of the image. Even though the figure is printed with single dots you can see the man very clear and by the light shadow the viewer can sense the wall against which the man is leaning. Here you can see how Polke played with newspaper printing techniques and even by the abstraction of the figure through the dissolution in single dots, you can see the man very clearly. The shadow on the wall flows smoothly towards a softly painted white cube in the left pictures edge. The whole background is painted in a bright and extraordinarily rich yellow color, complementary to the mentioned color in the title.

Creator:
Sigmar Polke (1941 - 2010, German)
Creation Year:
2008
Dimensions:
Height: 22.25 in (56.5 cm)Width: 30.08 in (76.4 cm)
Medium:
Cardboard,Screen
Movement & Style:
Pop Art
Period:
2000-2009
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Cologne, DE
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU134427891512