Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons art is very puzzling to me at one point I see some of his work and think, wow, that's pretty cool, and then I will see something later that really doesn't mean a whole lot to me. He has a lot of variety in his work and many times one series is a completely different style than another. One thing that I think is safe to say about his work is that he is very detailed and wants everything to be absolutely perfect. He himself is an extreme perfectionist. In an Art21 video from PBS it interviews some people that work in his studio/ warehouse. One person commented that for one painting there were 141 different colors that were to be mixed to create the perfect outcome for the image Koons wanted. Some one else commented that he rarely actually works hands on with the pieces and that much of the time that he spends working with them is through the use of computers and directing and looking over the people who are putting it all together.

I think that the pieces that I like the most are the enormous metal balloon figures and the metal cracked eggs. They are simple concepts to most people and generally people wouldn't stop to take time to study objects like this but when they are exaggerated to much larger than life sizes it puts a new perspective on them and suddenly people are mesmerized by the beauty of what his team has created.

Many people dislike Jeff Koons because they believe that since he is not the one who is physically creating the art that he should not be able to take all the credit for it. I think that the point behind Jeff Koons' art is that he is the visionary person and the pieces would not exist without him.