| Artist: | Jeff Koons |
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| Title: | Saint John the Baptist | |
| Date: | 1988 | |
| Nationality: | American | |
| Context: | Postmodernism | |
| Movement: | Neo-Pop Art | |
| Materials: | porcelain sculpture | |
| Subject: St. John the Baptist (appropriated from apainting by Leonardo da Vinci), embracing a piga penguin as he points heavenward; part of the Banality show; the sacred vs. the profane; kitsch vs. high art. Style: polychromed, slick surfaces fabricated by Italian craftsmen commissioned by Koons; uses appropriation, quoting Leonardo da Vinci, but mixes it with popular culture references--the cute pig and penguin. Context: late capitalistic, consumer-oriented society inwhich human values are in question as object-lust takes over; forces the issue of the sacred vs the profane, kitsch vs. high art. | ||
