DETAILS
- Artist
- Sigmar Polke
- Date
- 1969
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THE ARTIST
Sigmar Polke
Sigmar Polke, a German artist, challenged conventions by blending everyday subjects with mass media imagery and experimenting with chemical reactions in his paintings.
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Impregnazione
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Alka Seltzer
Roy Lichtenstein · 1966 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Untitled (Pair of Vases)
Keith Haring · 1981 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Captain Joseph Medill Patterson
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Woman at the Piano
Philip Evergood · 1955 · Smithsonian American Art Museum
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Untitled (Brown and Gray)
Mark Rothko · 1969 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Corpse and Mirror II
Jasper Johns · 1974 · Art Institute of Chicago
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Nude under a Pine Tree
Pablo Picasso · 1959 · Art Institute of Chicago
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The Banquet
René Magritte · 1958 · Art Institute of Chicago
