Jeff Koons, the American popular artists March 21 at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum of Fine Art to do a "Jeff - Koons: artistic creation since 1978," the lecture detonated the central United States division raw passion and artistic circles. Before this, domestic for Jeff Koons understanding, mostly through media reports and professional academic research, few of his
metal arwork on display in the country. Jeff Koons is a highly controversial artist, many people expressed respect for him after hearing the lecture, and even the mood of worship. There are a lot of people thinking, what Jeff Koons trip brought us.
Ambiguous relationship of art and commerce
Lecture Q & A session, someone asked: "the Jeff Koons Mr. there taking into account market factors change works?" Jeff Koons replied: "I would like to say that as an artist and no interest for the financial money not make much sense to me and just said money can give me a platform for creative works, I do the work itself does not take into account the many commercial factors, I am most concerned about is the exchange of works with the audience. "
As a pop artist Jeff Koons's
stainless steel sculpture "Hanging Heart" in New York to shoot a high of more than 26 million U.S. dollars, setting a new discipline of living artists auction. Queens from the 1980s known, Neo-Expressionism Art prevalent in the 1970s, Koons is completely not acceptable heterogeneous works very lukewarm market response, in order to continue the artistic creative career, Koons went to Wall Street when from the securities broker, it is this period of sea career that he will never forget, since then, maintaining an astute business people and exudes from the blood money sensitive. In recent years, Queens deliberately own works on the position of the high-end art, just to seem designed for rich entertainment, such as
cast bronze lifeboat and scuba his production will now be sold for $ 2 million a. Koons, there is a lot of money and art dialectical relationship between the famous, such as "social capital flooding, the works of art will inevitably become a commodity ... we do not beat about the bush, or one up on when the artwork is the same as the production of goods Koons bizarre, bold and satirical works often triggered intense controversy of the art world, and the his creative return blatant pursuit more people on his resentment. Still, almost no one can deny that he is one of the most important contemporary artists.
In some of the exhibition, Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol are always mentioned in the same breath, many people think, the Jeff Koons largely inherited identity, pop art of Andy Warhol commercial artists to the extreme. However, Koons said: "I'm not a commercial artist, I think Andy Warhol is not." International artist and curator Colin Chinnery said: "Jeff Koons's subversive mainly lies in his use of a kinds of cultural circles look down, and think it is not worth digging those visual factors to create art. hard to say he is in celebration of or in criticism, with Warhol's situation is somewhat similar: Art with commercial maintained an ambiguous relationship. Jeff Koons is important, this is the biggest difference between contemporary art with modern art. Koons art and commercial position is not particularly clear, some ambiguous: not critical, nor is it propaganda, a mysterious sense. Koons installation,
copper sculpture, creative language is very clear, it is difficult for other artists to reach a realm. "Maybe Jeff Koons stressed no financial interest in interpretation the pursuit of a life or artistic attitude, but also a rebel both practices. In contemporary art, there is a widespread assumption, that the artists will be established customs and practices of the rebellious contains a system runs counter to the tendency in our culture of consumption that generate wealth and fame, this symbolic value is much higher than commercially produced substances value. Is a commercial artist is not important, it is important that the concept of whether sharp avant-garde, whether the expression of pure and precise, whether sincere attitude directly. Extremely seriously creative and extremely dedicated marketing, the most expensive contemporary artists is perhaps so Tempered.
Jeff Koons to Chinese contemporary art brought
From an artistic point of view, Jeff Koons business culture as a cut-point of art and the world, he looked down on the use of a cultural community, think it is not worth digging those visual factors to create art, which largely affect China "kitsch art. Chinnery said: "Chinese popular culture tend to kitsch, so artists can easily take advantage of his point of view to make art but I do not know kitsch artists of their own creation is not particularly clear, Chinese artists kitsch art creation with Jeff Koons's the difference? because there are still some of the difference between the United States eighties and the nineties, both in reality very different, different artistic creation kitsch art when must have their own targeted, like Warhol, against the United States, China kitsch art is for what, this is not particularly clear. "
This will inevitably reminiscent of the plight faced by the Chinese contemporary art. Critic Jia Fangzhou think: "Chinese contemporary art in toward the modern, post-modern process, it is not possible to behave themselves set in a kind of painting within the boundaries of the development from the point of view of the history of the development of Chinese oil paintings, oil paintings, self-construction proposition is meaningful, valuable, but determined to fight for life artist could not get rid of 'International disregard' shadow. unless he gave up that goal, completely out of a meet internal needs painting , find the spiritual pillar or commercial success. Otherwise, this 'twilight' and 'lag' sense of tragedy will be accompanied by his life. "Cynical Realism and Political Pop's accepted by the international art world and identity, the key not because they are Chinese painting, is to contact them with the social reality matches the needs of the international art world, lies with the Western Modern Art the other hand, reality tends to the total effect. "So, when it comes to contemporary art or artists, people's eyes will unconsciously projected to cater to Western tastes angle up.
