![]() ![]() Working by series, Jeff Koons denounces through his works that seem simplistic, a certain idea of ?globalization and the society of consumption. In 2007, another sculpture, Hanging Heart, was auctioned for 18 million euros. One of these Ballon Dog (Orange) - there are five versions of different colors - was sold in November 2013 for 43 million. Inflatable Rabbit (1986) but also and especially the Balloon Dogs (1994). His Art is a hybrid cross between Marcel Duchamp's ready-mades, Oldenburg's immense everyday objects and the inevitable Pop Art by Andy Warhol.įrom this mixture will be born the now mythical sculptures in stainless steel: Superflat, which was the name of his exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 2001 and boosted him to the front of the artistic scene.įlowers, smileys, monumental sculptures straight out of Japanese manga imagery… He gave birth to the artistic style inspired by the kitsch pop aesthetics of the manga: Leader of Japanese Neo Pop, in his youth of the 70s and 80s, Murakami was into the advent of mass culture.Īs a child of the Japanese economic miracle, his work is a skillful combination of traditional Japanese religious art and characters from the television, video games, otakus and manga. The worthy heirs of Warhol and Lichtenstein are today called Murakami, Koons or Hirst.Ī samurai bun, a small pair of glasses as round as his face finished by a goatee, the face of Takashi Murakami, a thousand times reproduced, is not unknown to lovers of contemporary art.Īnd even less and less of a broad fringe of an audience yet not inclined to appreciate art in general.īorn in Itabashi, one of the districts of Tokyo in 1962, this doctor of Nihonga painting, is now a superstar as well known as his works, which was found especially in exhibition in the Large Apartments and Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles. ![]() Neo pop works as great medias of entertainment by producing ephemeral images.Ĭloser to the populace than Pop Art, like the Free Figuration, Neo Pop refutes the idea that Art is superior to others and aims to demonstrate that popular culture, consumer society and Art are on the same floor and can cohabit in the same image. Ready-made, icon figures like Madonna, Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Mohamed Ali. Term probably invented by Noi Sawaragi, Japanese art critic, in 1992, Neo Pop or New Pop is a resurgence of Pop art.Īlthough less revolutionary and demanding, neo-artists continue to use the same codes as Pop art. This definition has hardly come a long way when it comes to characterizing the Neo pop movement. In 1957, Richard Hamilton, one of the founders of the British Pop Art, thus defined this nascent movement. “Popular, ephemeral, disposable, cheap, mass produced, young, spiritual, sexy, full of tricks, enchanting… and which brings a lot of money.” ![]()
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