Jeff Koons

Born 1955 in York, Pennsylvania. He doesn't do his own work, but hires people to do it for him. Koons believes that art doesn't just come from a persons own hand, but how it is described and explained to one another. In Gagosian Gallory of Jeff Koons, he is one who blends the methods and concerns of Conceptual, Pop, and the technique of appropriation art with craft-making and popular culture to create his own unique iconography, that's always engaging and sometimes controversial. The gallery says that Koons "explores contemporary obsessions with sex and desire; race and gender; and celebrity, media, commerce, and fame".

"Koons takes images and objects from popular culture, framing questions about taste and pleasure". (Art in the Twenty-First Century)

Below are a few works of art done by Jeff Koons. Those works of art include: Lips (2000); Pink Panther (1988); and Sacred Heart (Red/Gold) 1994-2007.

A Wrapped Up Heart

The Sacred Heart (Red/Gold) by Jeff Koons was done from 1994-2007 out of high chromium stainless steel with transparent color coating. It was shown at Jeff Koons "On the Roof" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This work of art was created to express emotional feelings that a human would feel towards another human or object including activities. That feeling would be of love and devotion. The gold and red used creates that certain energy of a warm, loving feeling, and when the sun hits it, it shines with joy.

When I look at this work, it makes me think of a wrapped up piece of chocolate shaped in the form of a heart, that would be given to someone on valentines day or at christmas time to show appreciation and love of another. It also makes me think of christmas and ornaments on a tree. I feel a warm sensation of happiness and love. The Sacred Heart

Jeff Koons must have been feeling the love when he created this sculpture. It shows the importance and sacredness of a humans heart because if no one had a heart in the world, people would treat one another as if they didn't care what happened. With the heart being as big as it is, Koons, I think, shows us that no one could ever have too big of a heart to show their care and love towards others.

The Sly Pink Panther We All Know

Pink Panther is a ceramic sculpture done in 1988 by Koons. The sculpture is of the famous Pink Panther and a blonde woman that is naked from the waste up. Koons idea for this work was for men to get a sexual arousement.

In this scupture, the blonde woman has that certain happy grin on her face that she is going to get pleasure from the pink panther. The pink panther looks sad that he is just being used as a sex tool, but he has his arms wrapped around her as if he was aroused and attached to the half naked woman.

This work of art to me is deffinitely an image of one guys fantasy world of sexuality. It seems to me that Koons was thinking of sexual images and wanted to created one of his own for people to see and hoped that it could also arouse other males. The bright colors used are to show the excitement and happiness of what sexuality brings to a male or female.

Quoted in a catalogue explained by Carter B. Horsley, Jeff Koons says that, "Pink Panther is about masturbation. I don't know what she would be doing with the Pink Panther other than taking it home to masterbate with."

A Fantasy World

Lips by Jeff Koon in 2000, is an oil based painting on a canvas. He takes lips, spiraling pieces of hair, food, a sort of liquid, and a persons eye with eyelashes, and puts them all together in front of a landscape view, making a collage of things. The image, I think Jeff is trying to create, gives an expression that a person should be healthy by eating fruits and vegetables, drinking a nutritious liquid, and the outcome of being healthy is looking beautiful, like the landscape image in the background.
This work of art makes me feel as if I was not in a reality world but in a world of fantasy. When I look at this work of art it makes me think that I'm dreaming and floating in mid air. It kind of makes me wonder if this is what musicians or artists might see if they where on a very strong dosage of drugs, because it is so colorful and would make the viewer feel happy.
With being a Pop artist, Koon creates images that express art movements from the past. The movements that his art depicts include; Surrealism and Abstract. With all the advertising in the media, Koon takes those ideas and just puts images that make no sense together. It's as if he is trying to tell the viewers that everything in the world never makes sense and that nothing is perfect and that it is ok if its not.