Jeff Koons is an American Neo-Pop artist, widely regarded as one of the most influential and controversial artists of the post war era. Jeff Koons plays with ideas of taste, pleasure, celebrity, and commerce - creating a style seen as ironic or tongue-in-cheek. He cultivates a media persona by hiring image consultants and placing strategic advertisements in high-class art publications - “I believe in advertisements and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it.” His art prints and sculptures borrow widely from art-historical techniques and styles; although his practice blends several existing styles - pop, conceptual, craft - to create his own unique mode of expression.
