Purple and Snails: Polke's Experiments with Colour

Update: 2014-12-30

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In the early 1980s the German artist Sigmar Polke became a dedicated scholar of pigment manufacture. He favoured highly toxic, banned or otherwise exotic substances, but as a modern day alchemist he shrouded his knowledge in mystery.

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Purple and Snails: Polke's Experiments with Colour

2014-12-3001:01:11

Sigmar Polke: Films

2014-12-3031:09

TateShots: Highlights 2014

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TateShots: Poor Man's Picture Gallery with Brian May

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TateShots: Merge Festival

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TateShots: John Grant, Music Meets Art

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TateShots: Piet Mondrian

2014-07-3103:52

TateShots: Malevich, First Look

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TateShots: Liverpool Biennial 2014

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TateShots: British Folk Art

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Urbane Images: Mark Leckey, Helen Marten and Stuart Bailey on Richard Hamilton

2014-06-0201:33:17

Curator's talk: Matisse

2014-05-2842:26

TateShots: Daughter performs Smother at Ruin Lust

2014-04-24--:--

TateShots: Hilary Spurling on Matisse

2014-04-17--:--

Paul Klee: The Poetic and the Painterly

2014-03-2601:13:35

TateShots: William Eggleston

2014-02-2003:46

TateShots: Faris Badwan on Paul Klee

2014-01-23--:--

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Purple and Snails: Polke's Experiments with Colour

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Purple and Snails: Polke's Experiments with Colour

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Purple and Snails: Polke's Experiments with Colour