Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons
Jeffrey "Jeff" Koonsis an American artist known for working with popular culture subjects and his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. He lives and works in both New York City and his hometown of York, Pennsylvania...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Artist
Date of Birth21 January 1955
CityYork, PA
CountryUnited States of America
ideas people collaboration
I'm basically the idea person. I'm not physically involved in the production. I don't have the necessary abilities, so I go to the top people.
art way doe
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.
views moments that-moment
Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.
health support-systems people
My work is a support system for people to feel good about themselves.
taken artist insecurity
The first thing that any good artist has to develop is a sense of independence from the artworld. What really destroys a young artist is insecurity, the fear that everything could be taken away at any moment.
artist trying levels
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
germany produce artwork
I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.
my-family my-favorite activity
My favorite activity is to be with my family.
creating trying use
I use printers to make prints of the images that I am creating. And I try to have that surface kind of replicated in the painting.
nervous always-working ifs
I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.
spiritual essence doe
A photograph for me does not have a sense of spiritual seduction, it does not have an essence, that this is something that permeates and which is eternal through time.
spiritual two details
I learned a lot about the images of pornography and how much they dealt with close-up, when a person is at their most vulnerable and having to reveal details about themselves. I wanted to combine the eternal in two different manners. There is the biological eternal - here is our species reproducing - and then the transparent, spiritual aspect of it.
needs stay-focused workers
It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.
drawing tree missing
If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.