Sigmar Polke's Analysis

This is Sigmar Polkes drawing. Polke was a German painter and photographer who was born in 1941and died in 2010. Polke died at the age of 69. He was born in the Lower Silesian town of oelsnica, in Poland. His famiy had to move out of Silesia to Thuringia, Germany when he was four. Polke created an impression of normality by pretending to be asleep during their escape. They arrived by train in west Berlin.

Stigma studied glass painting in 1959 to 1960 at Dusseldorf Kaiserwerth and then moved to the Academy of Art at the age of 20.In 1977, Polke was a professor at the 'Academy Of Fine Arts', Hamburg. In 1978 he settled in Cologne and this is where he lived and worked until he died, june 2010 fighting cancer. 

Polke was using a Rollei camera to capture many different objects in his studio and house in 1966 to 1968. in 1971, it was very common that people couls not afford to print pictures but Polke accomplishef many films and took a numerous number of photographs but couldnt afford to print them.

.He done many experiments on many different things such as, different materials but focused on photography in the 1970s and went back to painting in the 1980s. Polke spent many time in galleries and museums.

In this photo it is not a realistic image it is a abstract image whch then does not show the actual representation of the image to the audience. In the picture it looks like he painting some of the the picture and added stencils onto it.

Polke has used a variety of different type of tone to his photo which makes the photo look more interesting because it give a different type of effect and texture and the paper looks like its a soft texture.
This picture is a confused picture to me but in some ways it calming but i personally think this depends on the persons personality and how the interpret the picture.