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Jeff Koons

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Best known for his playful large scale sculptors, Jeff Koons is a icon to most. His creative sculptors invite people to become part of his art rather than keeping them as solely a viewer. His art became part of the Neo-Pop Art Movement, emphasizing the importance of commercial interests. Just like the Infinity Room by Yayoi Kasuma, some of Koons works can be found at The Broad in Los Angeles. His art’s relevance to modern themes in different perspectives is what helps him connect with the public. He also is able to create a visual irony by using materials that are expensive and making them look cheap to the public because of familiarity.

“The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It’s not about the object, and it’s not about the image; it’s about the viewer. That’s where the art happens.”

Frank Shepard Fairey

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Noutorious to the art world for his past activist works, Fairey currently is still creating pieces that support modern movements and organizations. Using his typographic and abstraction skills Fairey is able to convey clear messages that create call to actions for the public. Recently he and his wife made a couple of prints and posters that lead with America’s message on voting. 

One of the organizations that Fairey supports is called Homeboy Industries. This organization is dedicated to giving ex-convicts and gang members a second chance at how they handle their lives. With his artistic skills Fairey was able to create a poster that symbolizes this organizations meaning and goals. The poster serves as a donation link and is available to purchase on Homeboy Industries’s homepage.

Yayoi Kusama

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At the museum of art The Broad, as in many other art museums, one of the most popular attractions is the installation of infinity mirrors designed by the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Most of her work’s inspiration comes from hallucinations she has experienced. Instead of letting these hallucinations that stem from her mental illness affect her negatively she has proven to use them in her favor.

Her most popular work in Los Angeles is Infinity Mirrored Room—The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, made in 2013. This installation, a physical representation of what Kusama’s world, has become a favorite instagram posting site. She was able to create a room that would invite others to experience life as she does, as an expanding universe.

“My desire was to predict and measure the infinity of the unbounded universe, from my own position in it, with dots.”

Georges Rousse

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Abandoned buildings have been seen as places of opportunity for the French artist, Georges Rousse since the 1980’s. He combines his photography and painting skills to create art installations out of empty spaces. He chooses only fragments of the area to paint keeping in mind the whole time that the final result should be a geometrical photograph. By creating these installations in abandoned areas Rousse is able to give these places new life. He likes to think of these artworks as a part of his imaginary universe. His focus is to make artwork at a large scale that will compel viewers from a specific angle but still seem interesting from different perspectives. He still works on his art in places all around the world.

“The convergence of these spaces goes beyond a visual game: Like a hall of mirrors, enigmatic and dizzying, it questions the role of photography as a faithful reproduction of reality; it probes the distances between perception and reality, between imaginary and concrete.”  -Rousse

Ibo Omari

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In 2015, Berlin graffiti artist, Ibo Omari’s adventure began. He has dedicated himself to finding swastikas that have been painted on public walls and turns them into appropriate works of art. His goal with these transformations is to turn these hateful signs into something that could spread positivity instead. It started when a concerned father came into his paint shop to buy a can to cover up a swastika that had been painted on the children’s playground. This concern to stop hate and racism in his community is what started his project, Paintback.

“We represent hip-hop culture, and graffiti is a part of hip-hop culture. We wanted to make the separation between a tag and a hateful message being spread with a spray can.” -Omari

His non-profit campaign has spread and other artist have sent him videos they’ve posted on social media, using the hashtag #paintback, of themselves covering up swastikas they find on the streets with art as well. 


Takashi Murakami

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ComplexCon, an event that brings together pop culture art, music, and food, has recently taken place in Long Beach. Takashi Murakami, one of the creators of ComplexCon (along with Pharrell Williams) is a well known Japanese contemporary artist. Some of his artworks can be seen in museum like The Broad in Los Angeles, CA.

“This year, ComplexCon will focus on the enlightenment of the individual, reflecting the issues and conversations that permeate and influence culture today from entertainment to art to politics.”

Banksy

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“Going, going, gone…”

This anonymous English artist is greatly known for his street art that most of the times speaks on controversial topics. He recently made headlines in the art community for creating a self destructing painting that was set to sell in an auction. This act connects to his belief that street art is meant to be in the streets, and by selling these types of works it takes their meanings away.