Contemporary artists-Jeffrey L Koons Visual & Performing Arts Essay (Essay Sample)

Jeffrey L Koons
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Jeffrey L Koons
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Jeffrey Koons is an American artist who has majored in depicting the everyday life objects to fit in modern popular culture. He was born in 1955 in Pennsylvania. He started being interested in art at a very young age. At a young age of 8, he was credited to have the painted the Old master paintings. He sold them at his father’s furniture store. He attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago, where he graduated with the Bachelor of Fine Art in 1976. In 1977, he started working in the New York Museum of Modern Art. He was placed to work on the membership desk. His close interaction with people and his impressive attire made him perfect his salesmanship talent. While working in the museum, Koons started combining plastics with the garish inflatable flowers and rabbits. He also combined them with the Plexiglas and mirrors, which led to the production of the striking surfaces and sculptures. It from this experience that all his artworks would later be based on. ["Biography - Summary". 2020. Jeff Koons. http://www.jeffkoons.com/biography-summary]