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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/820/826-20.jpg
Title	Bunnies.
Creator	Polke, Sigmar (German painter, born 1941)
Date	1966
Cultural Context	German West German European Western European
Style/Period	Capitalist Realism Modern (styles and periods)
Theme	Paintings (visual works) Acrylic paintings (visual works) Avant-garde Ben Day dots Dots Stylization Capitalism Marketing Pinups Sexuality Sex Figurative art Figures (representations) Front views Three-quarter views Oblique views Women Costume (mode of fashion) Bathing suits Pumps (shoes) Shoes (footwear) Footwear Headgear Eye-level views
Subject	Paintings Acrylic paintings Capitalism Glamour photographs Sex Seduction Lust Relations between the sexes Women Bathing beauties People associated with entertainment & sports Posing Clothing & dress Lingerie Bathing suits Shoes Footwear Headgear
Description	"In subsequent paintings by Polke, deliberately inept versions of American Pop techniques ironically signaled West Germany's 'secondary' cultural/economic status vis-à-vis America. In his Rasterbilder works he subverted [Roy] Lichtenstein's stylization of printer's dots by exploding his photographic motifs into molecular fields. The elements of these fields achieved a distracting autonomy - some dots were half-formed, others merged. In the case of Bunnies this atomizing of the image implied a critique of capitalism's marketing of female sexuality: the closer the (male) spectator peers at these Playboy 'Bunnies', the more they 'break up', their mouths dispersing in red showers. Commenting on his dots, Polke amusingly linked their perverse behavior to his personality, acknowledging an obvious pun on his name: 'I love all dots. I am married to many of them. I want all dots to be happy. Dots are my brothers. I am a dot myself.'" (Excerpt, pp.126-127)
Material	Acrylic on linen Acrylic paint Paint Linen (material)
Measurements	149.2 x 99.1 cm
Technique	Ben Day process Painting (image-making)
Work Type	Paintings Acrylic paintings
Repository	Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC) Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)
Source	Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.127, fig.63)
Rights	Photo: Lee Stalsworth. Reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC. Joseph H. Hirshhorn Bequest and Purchase Funds, 1992.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 826-20.jpg
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