For the cover of Lady Gaga's new album Artpop Jeff Koons sculpture of the singer first created, and then combined it with the classic image of the images of Bernini and Botticelli and blue garden ball

Jeff Koons Artpop. 2013
Cover Lady Gaga's new album
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Yesterday the global release of the new album, Lady Gaga Artpop, which created the artwork for one of the most successful living artist , Jeff Koons . Pop diva and a leading representative of the American pop art are long-time admirers of each other . And one only cover their cooperation does not stop there. To make the cover , Koons created the first sculpture of singer more than life-size . Three-dimensional work exists in a single copy, and where it later turns out , the author has not said .

In the album cover Artpop obvious allusions to several famous works of Koons. Pose Lady Gaga refers to the work of the "Woman in Bath " (1988 , Art Institute of Chicago ) from the series " Banality ." Blue shiny ball that resembles a common garden decoration in America , has been used in a series of Koons sculptures shown in the gallery of David Tsvirnera in May - June 2013. It's plaster casts of classical statues of ancient and not only ancient , each of which put the blue ball . On the one hand, the ball symbolizes something commonplace and affordable, to enter into dialogue with the works of high art. On the other - for Koons shiny blue ball has certain transcendental qualities , is almost a " symbol of all things ." In the cover is also used images of famous works of art - " Apollo and Daphne " Lorenzo Bernini and " Birth of Venus" by Botticelli. Jeff Koons wanted to compare the singer and patron of singers and musicians Apollo and the goddess of love and beauty, Venus .

Prepared by Mary Onuchina , AI

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