A student of the Düsseldorf School, Sigmar Polke together with Gerhard Richter and Konrad Fischer established Capitalist Realism, a movement that often parodied mechanical reproduction in a freely rendered and self-mocking fashion. Untitled presents a face in a slightly askew frame. The face, slightly familiar but not quite recognizable, is composed of dots that replicate the Benday pattern of commercial printing processes. The off-kilter position of the frame and Benday pattern together suggest a mechanical printing error, resulting in an image that is simultaneously prosaic and mystic.