Michael Jackson and Bubbles

Artist: Jeff Koons Title: Michael Jackson (and Bubbles) Date: 1988 Nationality: American Context: Postmodernism Movement: Neo-Pop Art Materials: porcelain sculpture Subject: Michael Jackson and Bubbles as part of the Banality show, gold polychromed statue that plays up a false aura or allure; kitsch and the Hyperreal; the sacred vs. the profane. Style: Koons commissioned Italian craftsmen to fabricate the sculpture for him; slick, shiny, seductive surfaceheightened for that hyperreal effect;turns the tradition of figurative sculpture into kitsch; false auras and the degraded sublime. Context: late capitalistic, consumer-oriented society in which values are in question; object-lust, but objects emptied of soul, vanitas imagery and the..