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HYLAND There is a spectral quality to nearly every medium Polke touched, nowhere so evident as in his Untitled (Rorschach), c. 1999, in vividly colored ink—yellow, orange, purple, magenta—in a bound notebook. A Rorschach, as we know, is a test of the psyche and its values, traditionally in black on white. Again, Polke flouts all norms, imbuing this probe for normality with the unexpected, with hallucinatory color that defies interpretation. It is all aura. For an artist who so painstakingly deconstructed the myth of the lone genius artist, Sigmar Polke was one. His works shimmer with individuality, originality and spirit, even as they upset the apple cart of modernism. Joseph Beuys famously said "Everybody is an artist." Perhaps it is true, but Polke stands apart, and now above. H Daphne (ΔΑΦΝΗ), c. 2004, Gelatin silver print; © 2014 Estate of Sigmar Polke/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Cover: Modern Art (Moderne Kunst) c. 1968, Gelatin silver print; © 2014 Estate of Sigmar Polke/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn Alibis: Sigmar Polke 1963-2010 at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC April 19, 2014–August 03, 2014

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