Jeff Koons profile
Jeff Koons (born January 21, 1955) is an American pop artist, a representative of Neo-Pop Art, whose works are often composed of extremely monotonous things, such as stainless steel skeletons, mirror-finished balloon beasts, often dyed in bright colors. His work is a big seller all over the world and holds the auction price record for at least one work by a living artist. The critics’ opinion of him tends to be two-tiered. Some believe that his works are pioneering and have important artistic value. Some see it as kitsch – sensationalism, based on wholly self-interested self-promotion.
In the era of neo-Expressionism, his early works were not very popular. In order to continue his artistic career, Koons went to Wall Street to work as a stockbroker, while also creating. Under the influence of pop art in the United States in the 1960s, appropriation and parody became the core of Koons’ early artistic creation. He turns daily necessities, toys and cartoon images into the state of art without any damage, bringing the audience not only visual impact and aesthetic concept subversion. Koons is also one of the representatives of Neo-geo(New geometric conceptualism).
Neo-geo, short for Neo-geometric conceptualism, originated in the United States in the 1980s. The artistic language of new geometric conceptualism is influenced by Minimalism, Pop Art and Op Art, and its core concept is to judge the geometry, mechanization and commercialization of modern life. Ironically, most of the artists who represented the movement achieved commercial success in their later years. This has led some critics to view neo-geometric conceptualism as a major commercial marketing effort rather than as a progressive artistic idea. However, there are also views that the acceptance and pursuit of anti-consumerism by the consumer market is itself a satire and criticism of consumerism.
Balloon dog
One of Jeff Koons’ most famous works is Balloon Dog, a stainless steel sculpture of a balloon dog with a highly polished surface that reflects its surroundings and the viewer himself. The piece was originally made from an inflatable toy as a prototype, but Koons enlarged it and reproduced it in metal, giving it a surreal and futuristic feel. The work was sold for $58.4 million at Christie’s auction in New York on November 12, 2013, setting a world record for the highest auction price for a work by a living artist at the time.
The balloon dog is made of high-strength chrome-plated stainless steel and is coated with a transparent and thin color. Membrane. The use of orange with high purity, saturation and brightness to highlight the visual impact of the sculpture. The shimmering orange stainless steel sculpture eliminates the heaviness and heaviness of cold stainless steel, and instead sets off an impression of lightness, fluttering, and vulnerability. Balloon dog borrows the techniques of Dada, abstract expressionism and pop art to abstract and simplify pet dogs in daily life. Taking oval as the basic unit, ten ovals are used to construct the shape of balloon dog.
The smooth and smooth line sense strengthens the lively and playful life vitality of the dog. It is like a lively, lifelike pet dog that is watching to come with food and wagging its short tail. This is a simple pet dog. Its dimensions of 307.3 cm x 363.2 cm x 114.3 cm tell us that its length and height have been far more than 3 meters, higher than the height of a normal adult. Jeff Koons uses the unique exaggerated and romantic modeling methods of pop art to carry out art processing, so that the audience can enjoy the cute little pets while generating a dangerous and exciting sensibility, which greatly expands the psychological bearing capacity and imagination of art in the eyes of viewers.
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