tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706678653651301316.post8470108669590267310..comments2024-02-27T00:28:09.103-08:00Comments on Art Blog By Bob: Must We Take Jeff Koons Seriously Now?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1706678653651301316.post-50560491062007301992014-07-04T19:53:12.855-07:002014-07-04T19:53:12.855-07:00In a word, No.
The best art provides us with conn...In a word, No.<br /><br />The best art provides us with connections to human experience that are timeless and universal, which literally stop us in our tracks and still our internal voices (Rembrandt, O'Keeffe; Rothko; Wyeth, and even Hockney come to mind). Those connections have nothing to do with fashion or The Market or, necessarily, ego.<br /><br /> Money is no yardstick of value. It's proof of P.T. Barnum's themes about sellers and those who pay to buy.<br /><br />When I think of Koons, I don't remember his balloon rabbits or giant hedges or lifesized porcelain statue of himself having sex with his one-time, Italian pornstar wife. I remember his plagiarizing a photograph taken by someone else of a line of puppies and producing a fired-clay version of it that was almost identical to the photo.<br /><br />Koons lost the lawsuit brought by the photographer, denying he was what his actions and life show him to be -- a trickster, and a kind of thief.<br /><br />Not to put too fine a point on it or anything.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com