So tonight, on Twitter, OvationTV and I’ve had a great conversation about who is an artist and who isn’t, and who should get credit and for art work and who shouldn’t.
It all started when I asked what the person who does their Twitter about their thoughts on Andy Warhol and we basically agree that yes, Andy had his time but now, give him a break.
Then I was asked about Jeff Koons and if I thought he was over rated. And the following blog is basically how I feel about Mr. Koons. Mr. Koons is an unbelievable thinker and creater, he has idea for production that I wish that I could get or be able to create (I’m lacking the money, so if anyone wants to chip in…then all is welcome 
) but an artist? HA, I don’t think so. Not anymore at least. He is the brains behind the creation, but as anyone how knows anything about Koons knows that he has a whole entire fucking team of artist who do his pieces for him. He goes through and has AMAZING ideas…but the factory of unknamed people who paints and sculpts his pieces are not ever once named in any way, shape or form in the creation of the work is just insane. Mr. Koons goes through and takes credit of other’s people’s hard labor and calls it his own.
The thing that I can say Koons is now like is someone like Walt Disney who yes, at first created his own works like Steam Boat Willie and the other cartoons which featured Mickey Mouse and his other characters but when it came down to the movies and later cartoons, it became the Walt Disney Company and each artist go credit for his or her own part in the production. Why can’t Koons do this and stop taking credit for other people’s hard work? Even other people who have been featured on OvationTV like David LaChapelle who work with a team said that he is nothing more than a “button pusher at the end of the day”. I think that Koons should take a note for LaChapelle’s or Disney’s book and say that he is nothing more than just the brains behind the creation, and start to give credit to those people who actually do the work for the pieces that we all know him for and the pieces that he still shows today. Theatre and dance companies also give credit to everyone involved in the production, from set design to the spotlight people to the director to costume design, not just the main actor…Is Koons just that stuck up that he thinks that he can be an asshole and just slap his name on work that other people have done the mass amount of work on and say that it was his.
But, what can we do about this? Is Koons too well known as an “artist” for this to change? I say no. Even though he might be the best known American artist at this current moment in time, I feel that if those who feel the same as I do make enough of a voice, maybe things could change where he would start to show some respect by those who do the labor work for him. Either that, or we can count on the fact that maybe one of us will be under Koons’ labor camp doing a massive amount of work on one of his projects and not being able to get any public credit for our work what so ever, and my thoughts…yes the experience is good, but I want the world to know what I’ve done and not let someone else show work that I’ve done under their name.
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