in this presentation i talked about jeff koons, sun yuan and peng yu. i also wrote about different materials astists use like pencils,paints and so on.

1. art
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2. Jeff Koons
• Jeffrey Lynn Koons is an American artist recognized for his
work dealing with popular culture and his sculptures depicting
everyday objects, including balloon animals produced in
stainless steel with mirror-finish surfaces. He lives and works
in both New York City and his hometown of York,
Pennsylvania. His works have sold for substantial sums,
including at least two record auction prices for a work by a
living artist: US$58.4 million for Balloon Dog (Orange) in 2013
and US$91.1 million for Rabbit in 2019.

3. Early life
• Koons was born in York, Pennsylvania, to Henry and Gloria Koons.
His father was a furniture dealer and interior decorator. His mother
was a seamstress. When he was nine years old, his father would
place old master paintings that Koons copied and signed in the
window of his shop in an attempt to attract visitors. As a child he
went door-to-door after school selling gift-wrapping paper and
candy to earn pocket money. As a teenager he revered Salvador Dalí
so much that he visited him at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City.
• Koons studied painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in
Baltimore and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. While a
student at the Art Institute, Koons met the artist Ed Paschke, who
became a major influence and for whom Koons worked as a studio
assistant in the late 1970s.He lived in Lakeview, and then in the
Pilsen neighborhood at Halsted Street and 19th Street.

4. Some of his artworks

5. Sun yuan & peng yu
• Sun was born in Beijing and Peng in Heilongjiang. Sun and
Peng are contemporary conceptual artists whose work has
reputation for being confrontational and provocative. In 2001,
they won the Contemporary Chinese Art Award.

6. Can’t help myself
• Can't Help Myself is a provocative and intriguing artwork,
Weng explains to The Creators Project. It touches upon many
current issues that are urgent in a global context, not only
with its robotic characteristic/materiality, but also with its
conceptual, socio-political messages.

7. Old persons home
• their artwork deals with issues of life, death and the human
condition in surreal and sometimes confrontational ways. 'old
persons home' is a 2007 piece by the duo which uses 13 life-
like sculptures sitting in 13 electric wheelchairs.

8. dear
• In addition to their piece “Can’t Help Myself” (2016), the
Chinese artists Sun Yuan and Peng Yu participate in the 2019
Venice Art Biennale with another kinetic artwork called
“Dear” (2015). It consists of a white silicon chair in a large
plexiglass box, fit with a rubber hose that violently whips
around.

9. dear
• Info text: Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s installations often involve
the staging of visceral, intimidating spectacles; the act of
looking on the part of the audience is a constitutive element
of their recent works. the object is loosely based on the
imperial roman chair featured as a component of the statue in
the Lincoln memorial in Washington, D.C., while the chair is
kept company by a rubber hose that violently whips around
the surrounding space. in between these periodic eruptions of
violence, the chair sits inert again, almost invitingly serene –
until the assault recommences.
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10. Paintings.
• Paintings are drawn with many different paints. For example:
acrylic, watercolor, guasche and with these paints you can get
finishes like: glossy and matte. A lot of well-known artists like
Picasso, van-gogh and more used oil paint. Oil paint is easier
to paint with because it takes a long time for it to dry. Some
parts of paintings need to be blended so its good to have a
paint that doesn’t dry quickly.

11. Drawings.
• Drawing is a different type of art. Drawing doesn’t require
paints it only requires colored pencils, regular pencils, an
eraser and a pencil sharpener but the pencils have its own
purpose. For example: in everyday life we use graphite HB
pencils but if you are going to draw professionally you will
need way more than that. You will need a b1,b2.b3, b4, b5,
B6, b7, b8, b9 and a charcoal pencil. You will also need a
blending stick to blend it out.
• It looks something like this 