{"id":2530,"date":"2021-01-30T14:23:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T14:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desres20.netornot.at\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2021-01-30T14:23:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T14:23:04","slug":"joyful-design-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/desres20.netornot.at\/?p=2530","title":{"rendered":"Joyful Design 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jeff Koons
An excursion into the art world <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Round shapes, colors, nostalgia, beauty in skilled performances\u2014all those terms are indicators for joyful design\u2014and when looking at Jeff Koons art we cannot deny that all those elements synergize in his works of art\u2014making Jeff Koons a perfect example of how to consciously use all those “ingredients” to create joyful experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeff Koons finds beauty in the ordinary and overlooked things of our life and is considered the most bankable contemporary artist alive\u2014his stainless steel\u00a0Rabbit\u00a0<\/em>(1986), sold for $91.1 million in 2019, is the most expensive artwork by a living artist to ever be sold at auction. The concept of the\u00a0readymade\u2014displaying an ordinary object in a new context as a work of art, is the foundation for most of Jeff \u2019s work. He says the idea that he \u201ccould acquire things and let them just display themselves\u201d was a revelation. Knickknacks, comic books, ceramic figurines, and domestic appliances act as a springboard for his imagination. His works are clearly inspired by pop culture, consumer desire, sexual freedom, childhood wonder and self-acceptance. While other artists only stay relevant for a short time, nobody else has stayed so relevant for so long. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His pieces provoke smiles, gasps, cringes, laughs, and, above all else, the individual\u2019s investigation of those reactions. He doesn\u2019t shy away from candy-colored excess. His signature motif, the high-polish surface, reflects our experience of his art back onto us. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really the quality of his work, interlocking with economic and social trends, that makes him the signal artist of today\u2019s world.\u201d\u2014New Yorker\u00a0art critic Peter Schjeldahl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inflatable Flower and Bunny (Tall White, Pink Bunny),\u00a0<\/em>1979<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nostalgia, Colors, Round Shapes
<\/strong>Inflatable Flower and Bunny was the first piece of art that brought toys and mirrors into Jeff\u2019s artistic vocabulary. He picked the bunny because it reminded Jeff of the Easter decorations in his hometown. Several motifs, namely the cartoon iconography and use of reflective surfaces, are still central to Jeff\u2019s work today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank<\/em>, 1985<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Skilled Performance, Round Shapes, Nostalgia<\/strong>
\u201cI wanted to keep it a very womb-like situation with water,\u201d Jeff Koons commented in a 1992\u00a0Taschen\u00a0<\/em>monograph. But this vision proved to be incredibly challenging. To bring his idea to life, Jeff consulted Richard P. Feynman, a Nobel Prize\u2013winning physicist, to devise a method of filling the balls and tank with the correct proportions of distilled water and highly refined salt so the balls would float. Temperature fluctuations and visitors\u2019 footsteps blend the water and sodium, causing the balls to sink; the artwork has built into it an inevitable failure, requiring reinstallation every six months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Ideas come from sensations. You don\u2019t have ideas without having sensations.”\u2014Jeff Koons<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Play-Doh<\/em> 1994\u20132014<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Colors, Nostalgia, Skilled Performance<\/strong>
Play-Doh took Jeff Koons 20 years from conception to completion. The piece of art is his memorial to innocent creativity\u2014made up of 27 individual pieces of polychromed aluminum, it re-creates at monumental scale a colorful mound of modeling putty once given to Jeff by his son Ludwig. Play-Doh\u00a0<\/em>represents an inflection point of Jeff\u2019s preoccupation with superrealistic, large-scale sculpture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Balloon Dog (Blue<\/em>), 1994-2000<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Skilled Performance, Round Shapes, Shininess<\/strong>
Balloon Dog\u00a0<\/em>started as a simple idea for Jeff: create something that would imbue adults with the delight that children feel at birthday parties. The execution proved more complex. In a feat of modern fabrication, Jeff translated this concept into an 11-foot-tall stainless steel sculpture whose dimensions precisely replicate its reallife latex counterpart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like many of Jeff\u2019s high-polished works, these pieces engage the spectator and celebrate the surroundings of their installation with the intent of bringing joy to audiences the world over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source<\/strong>
Jeff Koons on Masterclass. URL: https:\/\/www.masterclass.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeff KoonsAn excursion into the art world Round shapes, colors, nostalgia, beauty in skilled performances\u2014all those terms are indicators for joyful design\u2014and when looking at Jeff Koons art we cannot deny that all those elements synergize in his works of art\u2014making Jeff Koons a perfect example of how to consciously use all those “ingredients” to<\/p>\n