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C. Galliano
Rough Draft Jeff Koons was born in January 21, 1955 in York, Pennsylvania. He attended Maryland Institute College of Art, in Baltimore where he received his M.F.A. In 1974 he attended a show in Whitney Museum, NY that inspired him to become an artist. “It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show”(Koons), he then enrolled at school of the Art Institute of Chicago. Koons emerged as an artist in the 1980’s where he was influenced by Pop, and other appropriation art. He is a well known for his controversial subjects as a contemporary artist. His art personifies his obsession with sex and desire, race and gender, and celebrities, the media, commerce and fame. Much of the controversial …show more content…
Many also interpret his deliberate use of cheap, unoriginal, mass produced objects as a tasteless copy of the existing artistic style within that specific object. His work of the early 1980’s including New Hoover Convertibles, New Shelton, Displaced Doubledecker, Pink Panther is referred to as “The New” artworks that qualifies it to be postmodernism. Koons justifies this collection of art by saying that “You could think of the state of being “new” as the individual. That’s what I really want you to think about, how you can’t be new. To have your own integrity you have to live and you’re not immortal. But here the machine can just have integrity forever by not participating” (Rosenthal 231). Although some may consider his art to be tasteless or vulgar, it is evident that he creates with intention. His use of appropriation, irony and parody are what gives his work its individual style. As Koon states the machines are only used to make the artwork but it does not interfere with the remarkable meaning behind it. In his work he pieces childlike imaginations to reality. By using technology he executes his vision of both technological complexity and aesthetic appeal producing work that connects to people. In his artwork he incorporates sexuality to American
C. Galliano
Rough Draft Jeff Koons was born in January 21, 1955 in York, Pennsylvania. He attended Maryland Institute College of Art, in Baltimore where he received his M.F.A. In 1974 he attended a show in Whitney Museum, NY that inspired him to become an artist. “It was then I transferred to school in Chicago, all because of that show”(Koons), he then enrolled at school of the Art Institute of Chicago. Koons emerged as an artist in the 1980’s where he was influenced by Pop, and other appropriation art. He is a well known for his controversial subjects as a contemporary artist. His art personifies his obsession with sex and desire, race and gender, and celebrities, the media, commerce and fame. Much of the controversial …show more content…
Many also interpret his deliberate use of cheap, unoriginal, mass produced objects as a tasteless copy of the existing artistic style within that specific object. His work of the early 1980’s including New Hoover Convertibles, New Shelton, Displaced Doubledecker, Pink Panther is referred to as “The New” artworks that qualifies it to be postmodernism. Koons justifies this collection of art by saying that “You could think of the state of being “new” as the individual. That’s what I really want you to think about, how you can’t be new. To have your own integrity you have to live and you’re not immortal. But here the machine can just have integrity forever by not participating” (Rosenthal 231). Although some may consider his art to be tasteless or vulgar, it is evident that he creates with intention. His use of appropriation, irony and parody are what gives his work its individual style. As Koon states the machines are only used to make the artwork but it does not interfere with the remarkable meaning behind it. In his work he pieces childlike imaginations to reality. By using technology he executes his vision of both technological complexity and aesthetic appeal producing work that connects to people. In his artwork he incorporates sexuality to American