Jeff Koons Biography
Jeffrey Koons, more simply known as Jeff Koons (York, 21 January 1955), is an American artist known for his kitsch works, which ironically illustrate the American way of life and its tendency towards consumerism. He is also considered an icon of neo-pop style. Throughout his career, Koons has expressed himself through the use of a wide range of techniques, such as sculpture, painting, installations and photography, and the use of different materials including pigments, plastic, inflatables, marble, metals and porcelain. The artist is generally defined as Andy Warhol's heir and continuer of pop art. Another author with whom he is generally associated is Marcel Duchamp, whose ready-made technique he reinterprets. Inspired by consumerism and the banality of modern life, but also by themes with a strong philosophical impact, Jeff Koons' art is the attempt to support what, to the American artist, appears to be the fundamental trend of Western culture and society between Twentieth and twenty-first centuries, or the overcoming of the impermeability between classes and, therefore, the overcoming of social injustice. To this end, it is necessary that the boundary between the so-called high culture, to which the fine arts traditionally belong - the heritage of the upper class - and the so-called low, popular culture, which also includes the category of kitsch - the heritage of the middle class - is broken . This is the objective that Koons, following the example of the recent tradition of pop art, aims to achieve with his art.
