Most art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brushwork. They turned to everyday street life for subjects, instead of overblown heroic scenes, and they escaped the power of the Salon by organizing their own independent exhibitions.
The Jeff Koons universe: A concise history of his art"I've made what the Beatles would have made if they had made sculpture." -Jeff Koons From basketball tanks to flower puppies, the creations of Jeff Koons (born 1955) have become part of our popular culture, blurring the borders between high and low art.