JEFF KOONS
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FLOOR 2 DRAW
Try This! Why do you think Koons chose to display a basketball this way? If you could select an object to put on display like this, what would it be? What does your object say about you or the time we live in?
One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank (Spalding Dr. J 241 Series), 1985 What does equilibrium mean? What do you notice about this basketball? Is this how balls usually act in water? Koons wanted the basketball to float, in a state of equilibrium, in the middle of a tank of water. He worked with scientists to figure out a way to make the basketball hover exactly in the middle of the tank. The tank was filled with distilled water and then salt was added to the water in order to make the ball float.
FLOOR 4 DRAW
Try This! What is your favorite animal? Make a drawing of it.
Now transform it into a balloon animal. Try to draw it using just oval shapes.
Balloon Dog (Yellow), 1994–2000 Woof! Have you ever gotten a balloon dog at a birthday party or fair? Was it this big? Koons transformed a regular-size balloon dog into a sculpture that is 10 feet tall and weighs over 2,500 pounds! Koons worked with a metal foundry in California to cast this work, which is composed of sixty separate parts. If you look closely, you can see where the “balloon” is knotted and twisted together.
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