Jeff Koons in his NY studio

[chipboyesse]

@spd13062 and Starwheel6 . The fact that you give these dumb reactions, already makes him a succesfull artist.Have you ever figured that maybe this 'shallownes 'forms a critique on the world and the sake of art? Probably you guys are some square-visioned people, who absolutely don't get a thing about art.

[CatZula]

@chipboyesse Hmmmm... The production and promotion of shallow work hardly seems like a viable critique of either the world or art. Isn't that just a completely meaningless assertion? If a collector likes the shallowness, he's making shallow work for them...if they don't like it, he's critiquing it for them? How convenient...and nonsensical. That's a sales pitch, not a critique. Besides, Jeff, himself, has admitted these works have no sense of irony. So...no...

[cauterful]

this is garbage in the highest form of idiotic vomit for the rich.

[ritter89]

what a freak....

[Starwheel6]

Dogcrap covered in gold is still dogcrap. Doesn't matter how you present it. A few deluded weak-minded losers will be conditioned to believe in it. I don't need to re-evaluate my life because some trendies are deluded. Being mis-educated is your own personal problem. Letting corporate media indoctrinate you is your own weakness. Dildoids that make nukes think they make a great living for themselves. Their douchebags. Koons is a douche. Koons lacks vision, his crap fails. Quality wins the day.

[AreYouOffended]

koons is succesful, he has earned the right in my opinion. why do people hate someone so much because of the fact that money is a motiviation for their art? SO FUCKING WHAT? people who hate successful artists like koons and hirst because they have made money is really fucking annoying

[DIONYSES000AD]

TOTAL HORSE SHIT

[msumanmuraleedharan]

pathetic.....

[borrowedplumes]

embrace your past

banality as saviour

exploit the masses

any questions?

he was a wall street broker before

but i liked "puppy"

and "inflatable bunny" i would love to own

[CatZula]

@borrowedplumes Glad you don't mind being exploited...I'm not so fond of the idea...

[Starwheel6]

Koons should be designing playgrounds for McDonald's.

Koons makes shallow vision corporate crap.

Sometimes Pop is another word for commercial fast-food culture

of little depth. Koons licks the butt of Ronald McDonald and calls that a life.

Pathetic.

[AreYouOffended]

@Starwheel6 you need to re evaluate that statement within the context of your own life. what have you done for the world that is worth talking about? do you feel this way about koons because of your own insecurities and personal failures?

[Starwheel6]

@AreYouOffended No reason to re-evaluate - corporate crap art collapsed.

I've made the right choices because I maintain vigilant awareness against the

delusions of the ignorant & lost. Koons= the Bernie Madoff' of the art world. Ponzi art.

Koons crap can't touch Duchamp. Koons stuff is heartless loser art.

Dog crap painted w gold spray paint. In the end it's still dog crap. No need to

re-evaluate cuz I step around dog-crap & walk on toward a Renaissance

of quality, beauty & joy. Clean clear.

[acapeson]

koons is wonderful. even if what he is saying is not actualized in the work for everyone, why not say it? why not believe it?

[CatZula]

@acapeson It's just a bunch of gibberish. This is completely an "Emperor's New Clothes" argument. Koons hasn't earned my faith, nor anybody else's. Why should anybody extend him that sort of intellectual credit? ...Or, to counter...why not let Jeff Koons fade into anonymity? Why not let him disappear? Let the artists who actually make his work get the fame and money they deserve...?

[thornbird7556]

@CatZula Should Koons ever fade into anonymity, the Art World would be no better or worse. Jeff is just one manifestation of a collective human consciousness that's moving ever onward toward a fuller understanding of what art can be and self can be and, by extension, what life can be. Koons is an unneeded, though appreciated, proponent of a postmodern sensibility of self-acceptance and pain-transcendence that is beginning to affect our culture for the better.

[CatZula]

@thornbird7556 I agree with your ideas, in many ways, but the sooner Koons is gone, the happier I'll be. I don't think he's helping expand self-acceptance. I think he feeds into a culture of elitism where "true" art must cost a wad of cash to be worthwhile. The day that every man, woman, and child realizes that they have the opportunity, power, and creativity to create their own art I'll be happy...I think Koons makes most people feel just the opposite.

[xlerosx]

@thornbird7556

well put. (and I do not say that often). I wish all the people who just get on here and badmouth furiously would read what you wrote here.

If he wasn't doing the work he is doing...someone else would be.

[CatZula]

@xlerosx How true. If Jeff weren't running around trying to sue people for making balloon dogs, I've no doubt somebody else would take on this vital work. I mean, somebody has to regulate those unruly clowns, and it might as well be Jeff. Nothing says acceptance like accumulating heaps of money for promoting other people's work under one's own name and then using that money money to really sock it to others, claiming said appropriated work as one's own and belongs to no other. ...Really?

[AreYouOffended]

@CatZula he has made a fucking incredible living for himself, is that not enough to give him credit?

[CatZula]

@AreYouOffended As Starwheel has pointed out (and I have before), the oil companies make money, arms-dealers make money...financial success means nothing. Bernie Madoff looked like a great investment for a while...

Just as an aside, Duchamp notoriously made most of his work himself. It was one of the main reasons it took him so long to produce pieces.

[thornbird7556]

@acapeson You seem to understand the bliss at the heart of Jeff's art.

[artistforrealart]

Hes just a mouth..................

[spd13062]

"I did this, I did that'.....what an ass. He never feels insecure about art, because he never makes any. Prick.

[AreYouOffended]

@spd13062 woah take it easy... where is all this hate coming from? art today does not have to be physically made by the artist, it is nothing new, duchamp did it but i suppose you hate him too?

[CatZula]

In HIS studio, eh? Who's doing all the work, eh? Not an artist...more like a plantation owner...

[TICETOCAR]

the interviewer ...i CAN'T LISTEN TO HIM fuck.. roland hagenberg?? are you dutch?? I'm ashamed then lol..

[MsJony1234]

sexuality before death HA HAA - the interviewer didn't believe that shit nor did that knob koons..

[wolfiebeastful]

Swindler from pathological "artworld" who married whore from pathological "pornworld".

[uhj4]

stop talking about contemporary art as you do not understand it! Koons is one of the most important postmodern artists!

[rollagasper]

Mustache piece representing "sexuality before birth"... How interesting. I don't see it though.

[Eener1000]

He seems to talk about sexuality in every piece of work of his. I think the guy had a few nice ideas once, but now what he makes is just crud.

[cizmthemantiz]

Of course he doesn't feel insecurity about art, he doesn't create any of it(those macys day parade pieces). A wealthy business man like him should not have to worry hah!

[eddiemambo]

NYC Forever ! Go Koonz!!

[dsarantos]

He really is quite the artist, can speak volumes with out actually saying anything!

[chandru1103]

banksy said "The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it." I agree whole-heartedly.

[theyummies]

So awesome. Thanks for uploading this.

[plv3186]

ehm...well...uh...hmmm...

[stinkriverstudios]

LMAO I love it! I said the same thing. I said "What the hell does this load keep going ehm..well..uhhh...hmmm...I see..."

LOL thank you for catching it as well. Im not insane after all.