Girlfriends I (Freundinnen I)
Sigmar Polke German
Published by Galerie h German
Not on view
Polke played a central role in the development of Pop art in Germany in the early 1960s. Like his American counterparts, he produced works that focused on a growing consumer culture and media-centered society. Here Polke appropriated the clichéd image of two bathing beauties from a press clipping advertising a popular German film. He provided an enlarged photograph of the clipping to his printer, who faithfully reproduced it using the commercial technique of offset lithography. While the twofold replication of the advertisement liberates the image from its original purpose, the prominent dot matrix is an ever-present reminder of its degraded commercial source. The Museum acquired this important work as part of an effort to increase its representation of European prints from the second half of the twentieth century.
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