supplement the dots with linear elements. Polke's funky means of reproducing found imagery is different from Warhol's silkscreen process or Lichtenstein's dot screens created by stencil. Polke also made entire images from halftone dots, while Lichtenstein used dot screens.
             Polke also mixed together abstract marks and Art Deco motifs. He threw in cartoon looking figures and then defaced them with colors. Sometimes it's hard to figure out Polke's intentions or to take him serious or not. It is possible that his demotic style stems from his childhood trauma of a shattered land. Some people think that his art is an indictment of the values of those responsible for the ruination of World War II. Polke has been called, "Germany's Ironic Trickster," whose work and basic nature developed during Germany's postwar consumer society. He is one of the two painters, the other being Anselm Kiefer, who rose to the top of the new German artists in the 1980s and remained there when others didn't.
             Polke depends on the visuals from all manner of sources like comic books and ads from news. His work has a since of rambling to it not making sense. Filippo Marinetti, leader of the Italian Futurists 90 years ago, called himself "the caffeine of Europe," so later Polke drew a glass tube with powder spilling out of it and titled it Polke as a Drug, 1968.
             An article in Art in America talks about a traveling exhibition of his photographs; they are closely related
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