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Sigmar Polke co-founded Capitalist Realism with Gerhard Richter in the early 1960s, developing a satirical response to both American Pop Art and German consumer culture. His paintings combined advertising imagery, cartoon motifs, and hand-painted patterns - the Rasterbilder made by painting over halftone dot patterns - in a deliberately unstable, ironic style. He used unconventional and unstable materials including silver nitrate, arsenic, and meteorite dust that have caused many of his works to change over time.
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