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
art giving give-me
Art helped give me confidence.
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.
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.
needs stay-focused workers
It's about the production of the work. I need my workers to stay focused.
normal jelly natural
I would prefer a normal-sized breast, or a small breast or whatever, and that it be natural, than to understand that it was just some jelly in there.
people want
I want my work to be accessible to people,
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.
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.
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 world arena
I love the gallery, the arena of representation. It's a commercial world, and morality is based generally around economics, and that's taking place in the art gallery.
responsibility
I'd have to say I've become more aware of my communal responsibility.
dog class luxury
Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class.
art independent
A lot of my work is about sales. And it was about being independent from the art market.
health support-systems people
My work is a support system for people to feel good about themselves.