The work of Jeff Koons stirs up a couple of mixed feelings in me. It baffles me that an artist can still be called an artist even if he doesn't actually physically create his own art, only the idea. Why isn't he known as an inventor then? He comes up with the idea, and then relies on other people to fabricate what he has thought about.
Koons takes work of others and re-fabricates them in a more artistic form. He took images such as balloon animals, inflatable lobsters and dolphins, and even an image of Popeye and revamped them into his own form of art to put on display. Isn't art suppose to be original? Unique? I find his artwork especially his hanging hearts and the finish he puts on the balloon animals to have a sleek, sexy, sophisticated appeal, but it doesn't seem very original.
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