Wednesday, 18 January 2012

4: Jeff koons


Jeff Koons  born in York, Pennsylvania; as a teenager he revered Salvador Dalì,  Koons attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maryland Institute College of Art, and studied painting. After college he worked as a Wall Street commodities broker, whilst establishing himself as an artist. He gained recognition in the 1980s, and subsequently set up a studio in a Soho loft on the corner of Houston and Broadway in New York. This had over 30 staff, each assigned to a different aspect of producing his work—in a similar mode to Andy Warhol's Factory (and many Renaissance artists).
Koons' early work was in the form of conceptual sculpture, one of the best-known being Two Ball 50/50 Tank, 1985, consisting of two basket balls floating in water, which half-fills a glass tank. (The influence on Damien Hirst's later work The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living—a shark suspended in formaldehyde in a glass tank—is unmistakable.)
Koons then moved on to "Statuary", the large stainless-steel blowups of toys, and then a series "Banality", which culminated in 1988 with Michael Jackson and Bubbles—stated to be the world's largest ceramic—a life-size gold-leaf plated statue of the sitting singer cuddling Bubbles, his pet chimpanzee. (Three years later it sold at Sotheby's New York as Lot 7655 for $5,600,000, trebling Koons' previous sale record.) 
I have chosen jeff koons balloon dog as my thourth favorite piece or art so far ,made by high chromium stainless steel transparent colour coating 121x143x45 inches 307.3x363.2x114.3cm five unique pieces blue,magneta,red,orange,yellow.
based on a balloon twisted into a dog shape it stands at about 10 meters tall . 
I first saw this sculpure in the night at the museum two film and i thought it was just a random piece of cartoon that just happened to be in the film but later i descoverd that it was a real work of art by a contraversial sculptor jeff koons famed for art as well as porn what i enjoyed about this piece in perticular was the fact that it was so simple and contemporary it didnt need a story or a dialoge or a complicated message it simply is what it is a giant balloon dog it dosnt need anything else to make it interesting to look at it still ticks all the boxes of being a good sculpture it is symetrical it has balence ,form and a representative shape it works well big or small ,so i like this piece of art for doing what it says on the tin by being uncomplicated easy on the eye full of wit and for being a giant red balloon dog. 

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