Jeff Koons is an American sculptor, painter, and multimedia artist. He attended Maryland Institute College of Art located in Baltimore. He worked as a Wall Street commodities broker before he became an artist. Jeff Koons was born January 21, 1955 in York, Pennsylvania to parents Henry and Gloria Koons. His mother worked as a seamstress and his father was a furniture dealer and interior decorator. Oxford art online stated that in the1980s Jeff Koons won international recognition as a radical exponent of an NEO– GEO. Artsy states that “Jeff Koons plays with ideas of taste, pleasure, celebrity and commerce.” Koons commented that his art and personal life is based in advertisement and media completely. He states that he has always loved …show more content…
(Rothkope 15). Jeff Koons had a record for the highest selling piece of art. He achieved the record auction price for a living artist when someone paid $ 584 million at Chistie’s in Manhattan for his balloon dog, (Orange) 1955. Koons the States that all his works come from inspirations. (Lacayo 2014). He states that he hates when people focus on the price of his art he told New York Times “it’s not about the money, Other young artists I wanted to engage in the excitement of making art and sharing ideas, that’s what the art world means to me. This pieces “woman in tub (1988) was an inspiration from when he was younger. His grandfather had an ashtray in their television room; it was a small porcelain over girl in a bath tub. Koons explains that it was white with pink and blue details. He states that this piece also references Magnets and Degas. A few of his series that I love are equilibrium, banality, and made in heaven. Jeff Koons has made many different types of art and all of them are known to all the art world but These three are the main ones that was the talk about or create controversy. In 1985 stated by Rothkope Jeff Koons exhibition “equilibrium” came out. This exhibition was of equilibrium tanks with blue the Glass aquarium’s that held one or more basketball submerge in precise combination of distilled water and seawater that kept them suspended in the center of the tank. In a TV series called art 21 Jeff Koons talks about is “Banality” series. He stated
Attention Getter: The American culture is so engulfed into consumerism that we take every day items and objects for granted we don 't necessarily realize the impact and importance to have on our life and how we live vicariously through them. Today I 'm going to talk about one man that took these concepts into his artistic ability and thereby created a whole new culture in what we see is art today. This man who is considered one of the fathers of pop art goes by the name of Andy Warhol.
Born in January 12, 1964, Bezos demonstrated intense scientific and mechanical interests since an early age. Parents, Miguel Bezos, a Cuban immigrant engineer, and Jackie Gise Jorgensen were impressed when their three-year-old Jeff dismantled his crib apart using a screwdriver
Paul Klee will always be remembered as one of the world’s greatest modern artists. Not only through his inspiring artwork that was trendsetting for many generations of artists to come, but also his writings and lectures that were extremely valuable to the world of modern art laying the ground work for mastering color, style, and simplicity; Klee was truly one of the all-time greats at what he did. Klee was also one of the first artists to recognize the art of the self-taught and mentally ill. Klee said: “Only children, madmen, and savages, truly understand the in-between world of spiritual truth”.
Norman rockwell was born in 1894 in New York City. By the age of 14 he was already enrolled in the art classics. In 1910 he had left high school to study his favorite thing art. Over time when he was there he learned technical skills that he would need over his long career.
Andrew Clemons the artist is well recognized by society's elite. "Capt. George M. Rising purchased the jar and presented it to General Lawler last Saturday afternoon, who, no doubt will treasure the miniature pontoon bridge, made of sand by the deaf and dumb artist boy, Andy Clemens, as one of the finest works which graces the sand in his study."(2) The Mark of a great artist is selling their art without intention. Andrew displays great qualities of a good artist. The twenty old Andrew Clemons success as an artist did not guarantee his livelihood. Andrew rejected two offers one made by the Smithsonian Institution to train him as a teacher. The other offer was from deaf salesman selling door-to-door tried to encourage Andrew to sell door-to-door
One of the collections in the OKC Museum of Art is an exhibition of glass and drawings by Dale Chihuly. Currently the Oklahoma City Museum of Art is home to one of the largest collections of Chihuly glass in the world. Chihuly’s background includes a B.A. in interior design from the University of Washington, a M.S. in sculpture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a M.F.A. in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design, & honorary doctorates from the University of Puget Sound & the Rhode Island School of Design. Chihuly is a very experienced artist to say the least. He was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant for work in glass and studied in Italy at the Venini glass factory on a Fulbright Fellowship. This museum holds over three decades of Chihuly’s finest work. All of his work is very eye catching and mesmerizing. His pieces also do not lack in color, and the way the light passes through the glass sets the tone for his work. You can tell that all of these pieces is the work of the same artists, Dale Chihuly.
Chris was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan on June 18, 1949. After high school he went to the University of Michigan where he learned skills like wood carving and where he majored in sculpture and, then he went to Rhode Island School of Design and continued his study in sculpture. Chris has won two Caldecott Medals. For his great amount of work that he put into the illustrations in his books like the Jumanji and The Polar Express. As he continues writing and illustrating books into the 21 century.
His most famous one, Balloon Dog is his physiological representation of what a classic symbolic representation of a child 's birthday party is. This particular dog has become the most expensive art work ever sold by a living artist, "sold at 58.4 million dollars" (Lestinsky, Lukas). Since 1999, Jeff has been presented with multiple awards from a variety of Museum and Art Institutions. His first show was at The New Museum in New York City in 1980 and has had his work showcased somewhere every year since. In 2014, the Whitney was the first museum to display a compilation of his work over said
Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged from the punk scene in New York as a street-smart graffiti artist. He successfully crossed over his downtown origins to the international art gallery circuit. Basquiat’s work is one of the few examples of how an early 1980’s American graffiti-based could become a fully recognized artist. Despite his work’s unstudied appearance, Basquiat very skillfully and purposefully brought together in his art a host of disparate traditions, practices and styles to create a unique kind of visual collage. His work is an example of how American artists of the 1980’s could reintroduce the human figure in their work after the wide success of minimalism and conceptualism.
Born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1948 and eventually moving to New York City in 1957, Art Spiegelman made a name for himself at a young age drawing cartoons at his school. By the time he started high school, he was making money with his comics and selling his art to the local paper. He attended Harpur College for four years, where he studied art and worked as a cartoonist for the school paper. In 1971, he moved to San Francisco where he began his career as a creator of underground commix that included The Compleat Mr. Infinity and The Viper Vicar of Vice, Villainy and Vickedness. In 1986, he released the book about his father’s memory of the Holocaust, entitled Maus: A Survivor’s
Jeff Koons was born in 1955 in York, Pennsylvania. When Koons was 7 years old, his parents put him in art lessons. In 1972 to 1975, he enrolled at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1975, he went to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois where he studied there for only 1 year. Then in 1976, he went back to Maryland College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland where he received his B.F.A. Jeff Koons has 4 sons with his wife Justine Wheeler-Koons, who is also an artist. He had one daughter named Shannon who as an infant was put up for adoption but in the mid-1990s, they reestablished a relationship together. Many of Koons works have sold for millions of
The field I would like to work in when I am older is Illustration. I would like to write and illustrate my own children’s books. I found the perfect illustrator I would like to shadow while he is doing his job. He illustrates children’s Christian books. His name is Ed Koehler. Another person I would like to shadow is Beth Carter. Carter is a children’s book writer. They both are based in Missouri.
As Banksy’s artwork spread throughout the world the prices of his paintings went up as well. A painting of a girl in an astronaut suite holding a yellow bird sold for $576,000. After this picture sold Banksy posted on his website a painting of an art auction with the words, “I can’t believe you morons actually buy this shit.” He calls the art world, “the biggest joke going ... a rest home for the over privileged, the pretentious, and the weak.” Banksy takes pride in telling people his opinion of their actions. His website post against people buying his paintings for a lot of money is a sign of just how much he dislikes the use of money in the world. I think this proves that the goal in creating his graffiti art is not to make a lot of money but to let his opinion be heard on all kinds of controversial topics. His strong opinions may also be because of his anonymous identity.
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon.com, was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1964. His mother, Jackie, was in her teens when he was born and she was only married to his biological father for about a year. She married Mike Bezos when Jeff was four years old. Mike was a Cuban who escaped to the United States when he was fifteen. He put himself through college in New Mexico and eventually became an engineer at Exxon.
goes on in that world.... The basic unit of analysis, then, is an art world.”