Popeye Skateboard is a set of 3 skateboards made of 7 ply Grade A Canadian Maple wood by Jeff Koons. From a limited edition of 500 the Top-print includes a printed signature of Jeff Koons.
“Popeye is about an image of, ‘I am what I am.’ Kind of a symbol of self-acceptance that you have to embrace who you are. Popeye has his spinach. Spinach brings about his transcendence, and brings about his power. That’s what art [is]. Art is our spinach.” – Jeff Koons
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Jeff Koons, one of the leading artists in the world, reinterprets a detail of his 2008 oil painting Triple Popeye, a layered and hand-painted composition with the iconic cartoon character, Popeye. Here we see the fictional sailor clutching a can of spinach, his life-force, and posing triumphantly amid colorful gestures and a reflective silver line drawing to give a sense of movement. Popeye Skateboard, 2021, utilises a triptych of skateboards as its canvas.
Artwork Details
Set of 3 skateboards made of 7 ply Grade A Canadian Maple wood
Size: Signed by the artist No apparent condition issues
Additional Information:
1 Easyfix wall mount included per deck
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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.
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.
