In reply to Galileo's Universe:
I wonder how often artists read reviews of their work and find they were completely misinterpreted?
Everything has to be "a comment on" something. It's retarded!
Am I wrong?
Arts and Culture
From Shakespeare to The Smiths, Wittgenstein to Warhol
Ref. Sotheby's
Artkrush ............JEFF KOONS TOP THE MET
Pop jokester Jeff Koons is sitting pretty on top of the art-world market ' his Hanging Heart, a giant version of a cheap jewelry pendant, fetched over $22 million last fall, setting a record for a living artist ' and now three of his works are perched atop the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The artist's enormous replicas of a chocolate heart wrapped in red cellophane, a poorly colored-in picture of Piglet from a Winnie the Pooh coloring book, and a golden balloon-animal dog will spend their summer on the museum's roof deck. The New York Times called the works "mischievously meaningful," and concluded, "Mr. Koons' sculptures remain intellectually and sensuously exciting objects."
The New York Times
By KEN JOHNSON Published: April 22, 2008
' They are mischievously meaningful works. With its pneumatic, sausagelike parts, 'Balloon Dog (Yellow)' is a sly Trojan Horse: it seems innocent but is loaded with aesthetic and erotic perversity. 'Sacred Heart (Red/Gold)' acidly comments on the commercial debasement of emotional and religious experience. 'Coloring Book' reflects the youth-obsessed infantilism of modern culture and society.
In reply to Landon:
It's all such a load of psuedo intellectual ambitiousness. With a work such as this it is obvious that it will affect the viewer in a very individual way as it will stimulate thoughts & feelings from our own individual experiences of life.
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A very valid point of view ... but I was wondering how the art reviewers came to such a philosophical and incredible deep interpretation without Jeff himself explaining the motivations that inspired him to create such a festive work of art in the first place, and not forgetting the fact that had the giant hart had not had the signature 'JK' ... it could then in another life simply be taken for a possible Valentine's Day Promotion object .... made exclusively for the Macy's Day Parade for instance ... and needless to say that the interpreter made it absolutely more interesting to us how to give a meaningful meaning to a giant balloon heart full, I assume, of Jeff's love :):)
Perhaps there is some truth in the words ... ' Love never seems to come cheap ' . Andy would certainly be smiling from the heavens with a well founded jealousy and his total blessing ...:) the ultimate symbol in Pop Art culture indeed, our popular culture that is.
In the end his signature is the real 'objet d'art' ... nothing can surpass that ever ! .... wouldn't that be nice to have his signature blown up just like the
heart and exhibit it as the real centre piece ? .... the ultimate coup coup d'état in art today .... absolutely wonderful !