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animals\u00a0produced in\u00a0stainless steel\u00a0with\u00a0mirror-finish\u00a0surfaces.<\/p>\nis an\u00a0American\u00a0artist known for working with\u00a0popular culture\u00a0subjects and his reproductions of\u00a0banal\u00a0objects, such as\u00a0balloon animals\u00a0produced in\u00a0stainless steel\u00a0with\u00a0mirror-finish\u00a0surfaces.<\/p>\n
He is the epitome of\u00a0Neo-Pop<\/span>, a 1980s movement that looked to earlier\u00a0Pop<\/span>\u00a0artists, particularly\u00a0Warhol<\/span>, for inspiration. His steel\u00a0Balloon Dog<\/i>\u00a0sculptures, probably his best-known works, transpose an ephemeral childhood memory into an enduring form. His work looks cheap, but is expensive, an ingenious reversal of economic logic that forms the basis for his stunning commercial success.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Koons’ most famous works to date are the towering sculptures inspired by balloon animals. This one stands over ten feet tall and weighs in excess of a ton. Its sumptuous skin, according to the artist, is intended to “manipulate and seduce,” like the Baroque decor of Christian cathedrals. Like the cheap, shiny rubber it is meant to imitate, the surface of\u00a0Balloon Flower<\/i>\u00a0evokes the eternal appeal of precious metal.<\/p>\n For generations of adults, from the baby boomers to millennials, the mere sight of Play-Doh is nostalgic, conjuring the scent and tactile appeal of this strange, yet calming synthetic substance.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n https:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/art\/art-terms\/p\/postmodernism<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.theartstory.org\/artist-koons-jeff-artworks.htm#pnt_6<\/p>\n https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeff_Koons#Early_Works_and_Inflatables<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jeffrey Koons is an\u00a0American\u00a0artist known for working with\u00a0popular culture\u00a0subjects and his reproductions of\u00a0banal\u00a0objects, such as\u00a0balloon animals\u00a0produced in\u00a0stainless steel\u00a0with\u00a0mirror-finish\u00a0surfaces. He is the epitome of\u00a0Neo-Pop, a 1980s movement that looked to earlier\u00a0Pop\u00a0artists, particularly\u00a0Warhol, for inspiration. His steel\u00a0Balloon Dog\u00a0sculptures, probably his best-known works, transpose an ephemeral childhood memory into an enduring form. His work looks cheap, but is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7855,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-131-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7855"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/marinasubach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Image](\"http:\/\/d5wt70d4gnm1t.cloudfront.net\/media\/articles\/702\/the_art_critics_lament_900x450_c.jpg\")
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Balloon Flower (Red)<\/h3>\n
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Rendering of Play-Doh<\/h3>\n
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Sources<\/h3>\n