Jeff Koons is an American contemporary artist known for his brightly colored sculptures that explore themes of consumerism and popularity. Today he is considered one of the most successful and influential artists, and his works often sell for millions of dollars at art auctions.
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Pedro Cabrita Reis was born in 1956 in Lisbon, where he currently lives and works. His work was increasingly recognized internationally, thus becoming crucial and decisive for the understanding of sculpture from the mid-1980s onwards. His work encompasses a wide variety of media – painting, sculpture, photography and drawing. Learn more about the Portuguese artist.
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Robert Mapplethorpe is known for his magnificent black and white portraits, which challenge his audience. Robert Mapplethorpe's career blossomed in the 1980s with commercial projects, creating album covers for Patti Smith and the band Television, as well as a series of portraits and party photos for Interview Magazine. After being diagnosed with AIDS (AIDS) in 1986, he accelerated his creative efforts and carried out increasingly ambitious projects. In 1988, a year before his death, he had his first major exhibition at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
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Girl With Balloon by banksy is one of the most popular works by the British artist. This image has become a symbol as it appears on walls, online and even on the arm of famous Canadian singer Justin Bieber who tattooed it on his arm in 2014. The English artist Banksy, anonymously, created his own language on the streets of the world, through the stencil It's from graffiti. His works are easily identifiable by their graphic language and their own characteristics. Children, policemen, rats or monkeys are some of the figures that the artist uses. Deeply figurative, these stencils critically address various social and political issues such as consumerism,...
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