Jeff Koons

The birth of Jeff Koons, a well known artist of America took place on 21st January, 1955. He got the popularity by giant reproducing the trite objects just like the animal balloons. These are prepared in stainless steel and the surface is finished in mirror and these are usually colored brightly. The art of Jeff Koons has normally been sold at very high prices. One of his works was sold at such a price that it made a world record of the price for the art of a live artist. When we talk of the critics, who have talked about Jeff Koons, we see that they are dividied into two groups. One of the groups, terms his work as of historical important and a pioneering art. While the other group thinks other way round and they discard his task as brashness, which depicts his self marketing. Jeff Koons says about his work that his work does not carry any veiled meanings.

When we look into the personal life of the artist, we see that he took birth in York, Pennsylvania. When he was just a child, he used to do a part time job after his school. He would sell candies and wrapping papers so that he could get money to be used as pocket money. When he was teenaged, he gave so much respect to Salvador Dali that he went to see him in New York at St. Regis Hotel. Koons joined two schools specially to study painting. When he had completed his education, he started founding himself as a performer and side by side he worked as broker in the Wall Street. He became popular in the 1980s and then he established a studio in New York. He hired the services of as many as 30 people.