Jeff Koons
(January 21, 1955)
I find Jeff Koons inspirational, because of his idea’s of scale and objects. I feel his work is an important part of ‘Pop Art’ and is also essential for contemporary ‘Pop’ artists.
Jeff Koons is an American Artist born in York, Pennsylvania 1955, he studied painting at the School of Art Institute of Chicago, and the Maryland Institute College of Art.
In the 1980’s he set up a factory studio in a loft on the corner of Houston and Broadway in New York.
Each assigned to a different aspect of production, 30 staff were involved in Koons work.
Koons then moved on to the works of large stainless-steel blowups of children’s toys, called “Statuary”.
From (1994-2000) Koons released his work called “Balloon Dog” based on a balloon, which is twisted into the shape of a Dog. To give the appearance of balloons, the sculpture was made of metal, which was painted bright red. This sculpture was more than ten feet tall.
Koons was asked in 1992 to create a piece of artwork for an exhibition in Bad Arolsen, Germany.
This resulted in Jeff Koons forty-three feet tall sculpture of a West Highland White Terrier called ‘Puppy’, which was constructed in a steel substructure, blooming in a variety of flowers.
