Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.
Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series.
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music.
I think that the mythology of Van Gogh's life, and the beauty of his paintings, is unstoppable.
Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
Unlike life, a work of art never gets taken for granted: it is always viewed against its precursors and predecessors.
When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.
It's not like a boss and artist relationship; it's like a big brother to a younger brother relationship, and he's a great guy. So big shout-out to Akon and the Konvict Muzik crowd.
I like the transience of Klimt paintings.