As I looked through his work this image was one that definitely captured my eye. This porcelain statue of Michael Jackson and Bubbles was incredibly beautiful. With Koons main objective to bring everyday fantasies and objects into fantastic and flawless art pieces. We see the amazing detail and texture gradient that he holds in a simple but complex art form like this one.
With this great and highly viewed pop culture icon we can see how he brings it to near life. Koons doesn't always do the art work him self, he will hire other artist and workers to help create his life like objects. Koons had an Italian craftsmen to fabricate the sculpture for him, designing it with a very slick and shiny looking surface. What we can see for the context of this sculpture is postmodernism as Koons was a major part of. Most likely have to be towards the capitalistic consumer, and this object or sculptor could value lust. The reason for that is Michael Jackson popularity and fame and how he transformed his body but we can capture him how he truly was through art work like this.
As the art work could be just a simple fascination with the Pop star or for the representation that this star holds. This art work reminds me and in a somewhat different way resembles to Andy Warhol. As Andy took this common objects and icons and in the way of painting or repetition idolized these people like Jackson which he has done paintings of. Also as both of these men were involved in the Neo-Pop Art movement works like these were what they were really aiming for and what the mostly consisted of. Both these artists take what we see everyday and transform it into their own way that they see art and how they believe it should be represented.
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