Shape & Color

JEFF KOONS
Balloon Flower (Orange), 2006
High chromium stainless steel with transparent color coating
114 x 132 x 108 inches (289.6 x 335.3 x 274.3 cm)
Version 4/4

Jeff Koons was born in 1955 in York, Pennsylvania. He received his B.F.A. at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since his emergence in the 1980s Jeff Koons has blended the concerns and methods of Pop, Conceptual, and appropriation art with craft-making and popular culture to create his own unique iconography, often controversial and always engaging. His work explores contemporary obsessions with sex and desire; race and gender; and celebrity, media, commerce, and fame. A self-proclaimed "idea man," Koons hires artisans and technicians to make the actual works. For him, the hand of the artist is not the important issue: "Art is really just communication of something and the more archetypal it is, the more communicative it is."

Koons use of shape and color really catches my eye. While I'm not a big fan I do find his work eye catching.