Tuesday, 10 May 2016

Research Notes: Jeff Koons -

Photographer Research -

Jeff Koons -

Born: January 21st 1955
Died: N/A
Place of Birth: York, Pennsylvania, USA
Occupation: Artist
  • Koons is an artist known for his work in the popular culture theme.
  • He was born to an interior decorator and a seamstress who inspired his work in banal objects becoming contemporary art.
  • He was a huge fan of Salvador Dali.
  • Koons became well known in the 1980s after setting up a Soho-like studio in New York.
  • Since 1979 Koons produced the series "The Pre-New, The New and The Equlibrium" series involving ordinary objects.
  • Other series were titled "Statuary", "Luxury and Degradation", "Banality"  and "Celebration".
Jeff Koons Examples:


This first image is from the series "Luxury and Degradation" and depicts a decanter made from a metal either steel or silver. Metal is well known for being retrieved by working class manual labourers in mines which shows the journey from degradation to luxury.


This photograph is taken at the exhibition of "Celebration" which depicts average objects developed in a surreal manner. Koons was often inspired by Dali and therefore employed surreal techniques. Surrealism is known for changing the size, shape, context, and or texture of work etc.


This final picture is from the series "Equilibrium" which was inspired by a Nobel-prize winning physicist.

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