About the Artist
Jeff Koons
Emerging out of the Pop Art tradition, Jeff Koons (b. 1955), became renowned for reproducing objects from everyday life, mainstream media and popular culture into installations, sculpture and painting. With a vision through the eyes of boyhood like Norman Rockwell and by minimizing the critical approach to objects like Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons has become one of the most successful living American artist to date. Emerging out of the Pop Art tradition, Koons became renowned for reproducing objects from everyday life, mainstream media and popular culture, removing them from their original context, and aggrandizing them to monumental statures in sculptures and paintings. Critics of Jeff Koons view his works as overly kitsch and his subject matter as irrelevant. Supporters of his work find it important that he incorporates everything relevant to our culture, in a style of his own which they define as being “pathologically optimistic” and “in a perfectionist pursuit of unconditional love”.
"Celebration" encompassed a collection of hyper realistic large-scale stainless steel sculptures and large-scale paintings.
