Jeff Koons

This ordinary piece of work is called the Rabbit which was made in 1986. This work is made just like most of his other ones. It is cold hard stainless steel that measures at 41 x 19 x 12 inches (balloonhq.com). It is very polished so no matter where you are looking at it, there is always a reflection. This is also an idea of a balloon object. I can't believe how shinny they make this object.

Just like all of Jeff Koons other works he is representing fun entertainment that is clever. It's a cute, warm, soft looking of a rabbit. Rabbits are more to catch kids eyes because it is a pet. Rabbits in real life are wonderful pets and just everything about it is nice. I think Jeff is amazing at what he does and there is never any harm in his work. It is all just to catch eyes of others and interest people mostly younger.

There is nothing that this reminds me that we have went over in class. The only experiences I have had in my life that could possibly relate to this piece of work is that i had a bunny before but thats about it.

balloonhq.com. 18 March 2001. Jeff Koons. 23 Nov. 2009.
http://balloonhq.com/highlights/koons/index.html

Jeff Koons

This next piece of art by Jeff Koons was called the Balloon Dog. This was a 1996 sculpture made by steel and of epoxy fiberglass (ballonhq.com). Jeff did not make this, instead he drew up the idea of it while other people came in to create it. The size of the Ballon Dog is 126 x 149 x 47 inches which is huge (balloonhq.com). I thought it was a shinny green but it is actually yellow.

I found a great quote that sums up what Jeff is responding in the sculpture Balloon Dog. Jeff says, "It's about celebration and childhood and color and simplicity - but it's also a Trojan horse. It's a Trojan horse to the whole body of artwork." This particular work is just trying to bring livelyhood to the public with its bright color and interesting balloon figure. Everyone knows how people can make figures like dogs out of regular balloons, but Koons took it even further by creating the balloon dog out of steel and fiberglass.

This work doesnt remind me of anything else we have covered in class but it did remind me of the painting a guy named Bruce Nauman created. Only because his painting was of a green light corridor and it is extremely bright. I think the color is real cool and catches my eye just like the balloon does. Other than that I can't seem to relate it back to anything other than makes me think of county fairs where I use to have balloon dogs made for me.

balloonhq.com. 18 March 2001. Jeff Koons. 23 Nov. 2009.
http://www.balloonhq.com/highlights/koons/index.html

Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons created this sculpture that is called Puppy. It took him over three months to create this sculpture. He began on December 12, 1995 and ended it finally on March 17, 1996 (Art Gallery of NSW). It was insane how large it was, while standing at 12.4 meters high(Art Gallery of NSW). This type of art for the Puppy is called topiary which is a form of gardening art (Art Gallery of NSW). He started out with just a huge steel substructure to outline a dog and covered it with hand-wire-mesh. On top of that was lined with soil and prepared by an internal irrigation system. The last part was the 60,000 plants all over to finish the Puppy structure (Art Gallery of NSW).

"I'm always trying to create work that doesn't make viewers feel their being spoken down to, so that they feel open participation, said Jeff Koons." The Puppy sculpture seemed to catch a lot of younger childrens eyes. Of course children love colorful objects and pets so i can see why. His work on this sculpture is said to explore contemporary obsessions with celebrity, sexuality and desire. It also is looked at as advertising and the media because it is out in the open for everyone to observe (Art Gallery of NSW). His work on the Puppy is special because it is out in the public for people to see and thats not how the other artists did their works. The creation of the Puppy was to bring happyness and entertainment to the publics eyes.

I did not think the Puppy sculpture reminded me of anything from class other than it is conceptual art. Koons figured out what he was going to with this project before hand, then after he had is directions he started creating the sculpture. I thought the puppy sculpture was agreat idea with all the flowers and I would love to see something like that. I have no other references for this art made here so I am not sure what else to say. If you had to ask me what i believed it reminded me of, then I would say Cliffered the big red dog.

Art Gallery of NSW. 2009. "1995 Jeff Koons." 23 Nov. 2009.
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/