- published: 17 Sep 2013
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Jeffrey "Jeff" Koons (born January 21, 1955) is an American artist known for his reproductions of banal objects—such as balloon animals produced in stainless steel with mirror finish surfaces. He lives and works in New York City and his hometown York, Pennsylvania.
Koons' work has sold for substantial sums of money including at least one world record auction price for a work by a living artist. The largest sum known to be paid for a work by Koons is Balloon flower (Magenta) which was sold for £12,921,250 (US$25,765,204) at Christie's London on June 30, 2008 (Lot 00012) in the Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale.
Critics are sharply divided in their views of Koons. Some view his work as pioneering and of major art-historical importance. Others dismiss his work as kitsch: crass and based on cynical self-merchandising. Koons has stated that there are no hidden meanings in his works, nor any critiques.
Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania. His father Henry Koons was a furniture dealer and interior decorator; his mother Gloria, a housewife and seamstress. As a child he went door to door after school selling gift-wrapping paper and candy to earn pocket-money. As a teenager he revered Salvador Dalí, to the extent that he visited him at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City. Koons studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Maryland Institute College of Art. While a visiting student at the Art Institute, Koons met the artist Ed Paschke, who became a major influence and for whom he worked as a studio assistant late 1970s. After college, he worked at the membership desk of the Museum of Modern Art and as a Wall Street commodities broker while establishing himself as an artist.
Actors: Josiah D. Lee (actor), Micah Levin (editor), Thomas F. Evans (actor), Dylan Mooney (actor), David Weisenberg (actor), Steffinnie Phrommany (actress), Ayman Samman (actor), Fred Ornstein (actor), Robert Maffia (actor), John Fortson (actor), Sherrima Queen (actress), Philippe Tullio (writer), Philippe Tullio (producer), Philippe Tullio (director), Stephane Tullio (director),
Plot: Jesus is back and he's angry. Two thousand years have passed since his first visit and human kind has learned nothing from his teachings and sacrifice. No one fears for their soul anymore. Man behave as if he is the only one on earth and acts as though earth was created for him. Seven men have been summoned to answer for mankind. Will they find absolution?
Genres: Comedy, Short,He has come to bring you things that make you happy
A gigantic puppy made of living flowers
A balloon dog like a helium Brancusi
Baroque and Rococo, Louis Quattorze (Louis Quattorze)
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(Louis Quattorze) (Louis Quattorze)
He has come to bring you things that make you happy
A gigantic puppy made of living flowers
A balloon dog like a helium Brancusi
Baroque and Rococo, Louis Quattorze
Basketballs suspended in Bavaria
Usher in a fat contented pig
Whose every hair is hand-carved by Italian master-
craftsmen
A porcelain Michael Jackson and Bubbles in a wig
A box of breakfast cereal we market to the morning
A teddy bear policeman reprimands you with a warning
And all that's made in heaven falls apart
Pink and yellow arrows through your heart
Blue and yellow arrows through your heart
Green and yellow arrows through your heart
Mr Koons with a swordfish!
Pin the tail on Koons!
President Koons on Mount Rushmore!
The Klondike Trail by donkey
Context is a game that you can play
And art can help you have a better day
Pink panthers from the realm of the ephemeral
A friendly advertising testimonial
A second empire chair, Botticelli hair
Cut-outs at a fun fair and the clothes you love to wear
Every time that it appears that happiness and fun
Are as far away as Jupiter and Mars
According to the lore of great philosophers
A shaman must appear amongst the stars
A Sun King lifts his hand amongst the stars
And a vacuum cleaner stands amongst the stars
Gigantic baboons
Cereal spoons
Philosopher kings
The moon in June
Disney cartoons
The morning sun