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Something about Jeff Koons: American Artist, born 1955 Guide to pictures of works by Jeff Koons in art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
All of the works are based on night photographs that I have taken in the British landscape. Relying on their emotive qualities, they inspire me to use paint in formally inventive and arresting ways that will allow me to take the viewer to places that are loaded, seductive, and haunting.
The style is naive and basic as is the subject. There is nothing real beneath the portrait’s surface.
The only sense of reality they provide is the recapitulated image itself.
It is as if Kilimnik specifically critiques this reiteration by making the image awkward—and in doing so, human and real.