Post #122340 by Gigantalope on Thu, Oct 28, 2004 6:54 PM

Some of you might be shocked to find there are other artist besides Shag...and one of the most influential Artists of the past 20 years has been the controversial Jeff Koons. He embraces banality, and has made a folk art of making fun of established art by being established art. Some of his antics include sculptures of Michael Jackson (portrayed as white) making eyes at a chimp; Moronic stainless steel pieces that look like crappy mylar balloon animals, parody of what you are told not to do under any circumstance in art class...children and cute puppies some on huge scale, and his series "Made in heaven" where he and his Italian wife have every kind of good luvin' there is, (He no doubt used the my "talk citrus" line to arouse her this much... described in the "Pick Up Line" thread...any port in a storm as they say.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/9929/koons/
At any rate he has coffee cups now...not Tiki, but certainly kitche, and if he dies, just think how valuable they will be!
http://www.illyusa.com/AB1666000/showprod.cfm?ObjectGroup_ID=215

There are others less interesting but the ones on this link are quite whimsical and fun.

[ Edited by: Gigantalope on 2004-10-28 21:10 ]