The artist we learned about today was a guy by the name of Jeff Koons. Jeff is an American artist that specialized in balloon animals that were made out of steel with a mirror finish. Throughout his career he has made objects that refer to the world that it is around him and the things he encounters. Jeff has made a wide range of things from vacuum cleaners to advertisements to cartoon animals. One thing Jeff has tried to accomplish while he has been an artist is for his art to communicate with a broad range of people. After college he moved to New York and bought a studio in the Soho area of New York where he employed thirty people all which worked on different parts to create his work the way he wanted it.
“Puppy
Jeff Koons biggest and tallest piece came into realization in 1992 when he was paid to create an art piece for a museum in Germany. This idea resulted into a forty-three feet tall dog called “Puppy” The puppy was a tall sculpture of a White Terrier made out of a variety of flowers on a steel structure. The piece was bought in 1997 and was moved to a museum in Spain to sit out front to bring in art enthusiasts. The structure had to be dismantled and re-erected to its new home while being built back up it was added on to a more stable steel structure to hold up the millions of pounds of flowers. The best part of the new structure was the irrigation system that was planted into it to keep the flowers fresh and blossoming.
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