| Artist: | Jeff Koons |
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| Title: | Pink Panther | |
| Date: | 1988 | |
| Nationality: | American | |
| Context: | Postmodernism | |
| Movement: | Neo-Pop Art | |
| Materials: | ceramic sculpture | |
| Subject: Pink Panther and nude pin-up girl as part of the Banality show. Plays on the animate and the inanimate, the commodity as fetish object. Kitsch (bad taste, or appeal to a lower denominator); the sacred vs. the profane; marriage of the high and the low, art and popular culture. Style: polychromed, brightly colored sculpture made by Italian craftsmen that Koons commissioned for the job. Slick surface that plays on the idea of seduction. Objects emptied of soul. Context: late capitalistic, consumer-oriented society in which human values are in question as object-lust takes over. The hyperreal and kitsch chalenging the tradition of figurative sculpture. | ||
