APW - Sigmar Polke (497 hits)
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Rating: 1.34 on 27 reviews (Rate this item) (V)
Submitted by kaos-king (antius777) (View user info) at 2006-08-16 10:15:06 EDT
Sigmar Polke was born in 1941 in Oels, East Germany, now part of Poland. He spend much of his early youth moving about thanks to WWII, but eventually his family settled in Dusseldorf, West Germany, by 1953. From Dusseldorf to Wittish he apprenticed in a stained glass factory, leaving to attended art school at the age of twenty.
By his graduation in 1968, he and fellow student Gerhard Richter had created a form of Pop-Art that they called "Capitalist Realism." It was so named this, because it mocked the currently sanctioned Russian art movement (Socialist Realism) while commenting on the consumer driven mindset of America. Polke would create a layered narrative, incorporating various mediums all on one piece of work. Paint, lacquers, pigments, and screen printings would be applied over top of transparent material, and most famously, various non-traditional materials such as table clothes, dresses, flags, curtains, ect.
In the 1970's Polke traveled the world, photographing everything along the way. From 1977 to 1991, he taught sporadically at the Academy Of Fine Arts, in Hamburg. In 1986 he was awarded a "Golden Lion" at the XLII Biennale di Venezia and in 1988 awarded the 1988 Baden-Württemberg International Prize for Painting. In 1995, Polke won the prestigious Carnegie Award at the Carnegie International for the photography series he took in the 1970s. Most recently the Japan Art Association awarded him a "Praemium Imperiale" in 2002.
User Reviews
Submitted by Sepsis (user info) at 2006-08-30 21:01:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
your paraphrasing skills are quite impressive
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2006-08-16 14:18:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I'd like to see these in more detail.
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2006-08-16 12:30:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Ja.
Submitted by Life101 (user info) at 2006-08-16 12:25:43 EDT (#)
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APW +2
Submitted by ghola (user info) at 2006-08-16 12:12:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
very cool.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-08-16 11:55:37 EDT (#)
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Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-08-16 11:49:40 (#)
Ranking: 1
Doesn't really come through on the computer.
I am guessing you have seen them in real life, and it adds a lot to see it in person?
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Actually, yes.
That Carnegie Award he got was based out of the Carnegie Musuem of Art and Natural History in Pittsburg. They have quite a number of his pieces there. Most of his work is pretty large, and up close you can make out all the layers of media that he's put down. It's also cool to see all the strange shit this guy will paint on. He makes the canvas itself part of the composition.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-08-16 11:50:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
So your dream starts out like something from one of my horror tales and ends with us covered in blood, sweat and ejaculate?
And you wonder why I interwebs love you...
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-08-16 11:49:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Doesn't really come through on the computer.
I am guessing you have seen them in real life, and it adds a lot to see it in person?
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-08-16 11:43:10 EDT (#)
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no urine either.
Submitted by UnderOathMeal (user info) at 2006-08-16 11:38:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
THIS is what an APW post should look like. Nice.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-08-16 11:30:03 EDT (#)
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Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-08-16 11:15:14 (#)
Ranking: 2
i'm not sure if there was a pumpkin, for some reason at some point i was on a farm so there could've been. there were some very creepy multicolored evil things around. there were some random deformed creepy children, and these five boys, like teenagers that were trying to chase me down at some point and do bad things to me. but that was before the part involving you.
multiple fluids, non-excremental.
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Okay, I'm totally going to steal this dream of yours and turn it into a short story.
But get to the part about us. I'm glad there was a lack of feces. Blood, sweat, ejaculate... hell, even urine is perfectly acceptable.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-08-16 11:15:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
i'm not sure if there was a pumpkin, for some reason at some point i was on a farm so there could've been. there were some very creepy multicolored evil things around. there were some random deformed creepy children, and these five boys, like teenagers that were trying to chase me down at some point and do bad things to me. but that was before the part involving you.
multiple fluids, non-excremental.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-08-16 11:12:51 EDT (#)
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Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-08-16 10:59:46 (#)
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hmmm no.
but that sounds like an interesting dream. i guess life fluids could count as involved in mine.
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Was it a particular fluid? Did it flow naturally or by force? From both of us, or just one? Was there a pumpkin involved?
Submitted by Orgasmatron (user info) at 2006-08-16 11:03:06 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
APW?
Interesting art?
+2?
Ayuh.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-08-16 10:59:46 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
hmmm no.
but that sounds like an interesting dream. i guess life fluids could count as involved in mine.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2006-08-16 10:57:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Never heard of him but I like, I like
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-08-16 10:55:44 EDT (#)
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Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-08-16 10:44:49 (#)
Ranking: 2
think about the kind of mind i have.
now think about the kind of dreams i probably have. you'll probably be pretty close.
start guessing...... NOW.
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Hmmm...
Beethoven's "Ode To Joy" played in the background, while children with Down Syndrome dressed as Hitler watched our adventure through binoculars. There was a large camel present, painted all shades of the rainbow (acrylic) but he was just there as a prop, not to engage. All manner of body fluids were spilled about the floor, but fortunately there were vacuum drains that sucked everything down into a sub-chamber where our life liquids showered down onto a caged Abe Lincoln.
Am I close?
Submitted by Susie_Derkins (user info) at 2006-08-16 10:49:06 EDT (#)
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Viva la APW +2
Submitted by BobLobla (user info) at 2006-08-16 10:48:15 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-08-16 10:44:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
think about the kind of mind i have.
now think about the kind of dreams i probably have. you'll probably be pretty close.
start guessing...... NOW.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-08-16 10:35:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-08-16 10:23:02 (#)
Ranking: 2
apw = auto +2
btw i had a dream about you last night. creeped out yet?
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Not at all. I've had dreams about quite a number of Uber users... you included.
However, I would love to hear about your dream in mind-numbing, glorious detail.
Submitted by Maltese (user info) at 2006-08-16 10:34:43 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
0 + 2 = 1
Submitted by Maltese (user info) at 2006-08-16 10:34:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Pen0s
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2006-08-16 10:25:08 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Purty.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2006-08-16 10:23:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
apw = auto +2
btw i had a dream about you last night. creeped out yet?
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-08-16 10:22:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2006-08-16 10:18:18 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
A pre-emptive -2 for Darko since I refuse to play according to his ickle lil game.
The file name is "Polke1.jpg"