me too lolOMG those lines were supposed to be LV?All this time I thought they are just random lines
Masters LV x Koons 2017 Collaboration
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I would liked to have seen more Koons, less Old Masters.... then I would have been interested in this collection...
Did I just enroll myself into an Art appreciation forum?
Regardless I am still madly in love.
Regardless I am still madly in love.
Exactly art or not art, who care? I buy what I love and enjoy it!
Looks like Koons started working on this project a day before the deadline! CUT-COPY-PASTED the heck out of his Gazing Ball collection.
One of the most underwhelming collaborations EVER!!
One of the most underwhelming collaborations EVER!!
After seeing the bags modelled on instagram photos I'm still not liking it. It's too kitsch. Maybe he's trying to make kitsch cool... who knows. The hubby said that if I buy this bag he will walk a million miles behind me and disown me.. 
After seeing the bags modelled on instagram photos I'm still not liking it. It's too kitsch. Maybe he's trying to make kitsch cool... who knows. The hubby said that if I buy this bag he will walk a million miles behind me and disown me..
My hubby love me as much as I love my bags
, it doesn't depend on which bag I bought (ps. He is artist [emoji67][emoji441] and sell paintings)Your hubby sounds amazing. Majority of the time my hubby doesn't really have any opinions on my handbag choices. But I think in this instances. It's more the case that he knows I will look hideous with a Mona Lisa hand bag. I definitely will not be able to rock the style like the models on instagram.My hubby love me as much as I love my bags
I hate to nitpick, but those aren't Starry Night. They're based on van Gogh's wheatfield series, specifically the "Wheatfield with Cypresses" paintings (I work at an art auction house, sorry! I can't turn my brain off sometimes)
Here is another article. This time in The Guardian.
Jeff Koons' Louis Vuitton bags: a joyous art history lesson
High art needs all the friends it can get. Museum attendance is dropping all over the world, and earnest attempts to court the young and identify with the new are clearly not working. Something more eloquent is needed: unequivocal enthusiasm for great art in a language people in the 21st century understand.
How about a Louis Vuitton bag with RUBENS written on it in big gold letters over a reproduction of that 17th-century painter’s violent, exuberant and gorgeous work Tiger, Lion and the Leopard Hunt?
I can’t think of a simpler way to put great art at the forefront of modern minds. This is not a cynical exercise. The hunt painting is not a pop icon – yet – but a serious painting beloved by art connoisseurs. Jeff Koons, for instance.
Rubens is one of the great painters Koons has chosen to celebrate in a line of bags for Vuitton. Koons, a notorious appropriation artist, is infamous for turning kitsch images and objects into art, but for his range of handbags, rucksacks and other expensive accessories he is turning great art back into popular culture. Just as Andy Warhol created Warholised versions of Renaissance art, Koons has turned the old masters into fashion must-haves (if you can afford them – prices range up to $4,000).
Frills, foliage and flesh … Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s work adorns a Vuitton bag designed by Jeff Koons. Photograph: Louis Vuitton
For from rubbing Rubens in the dirt and reducing the sublime to the worthless, these luxury objects look to me like heartfelt homages to great art. Koons clearly has an erudite and passionate love of oil painting, for while his bags touting the Mona Lisa and Van Gogh’s Wheat Field With Cypresses may be easy on our brains, he is also bravely educating us by insisting on the glamour of Rubens, Titianand Fragonard.
provocative painting of a partly nude young woman playing with a fluffy dog in bed has at least two similarities with his own creations. His giant floral statues of puppies are among his most brilliant subversions of what modern art is supposed to look like, and the painting’s voyeurism shares his appetite for blurring the line between art and pornography.
Notice this, and you see Jeff Koons in a different way. This is an artist who looks at – and thinks about – art from the past, and finds his most brilliant ideas there. The 18th-century rococo and the strange genius of Fragonard is not something he discovered yesterday. He has been drawing on the rococo for his sculpturesfor a long time. Similarly, his flamboyant super-pop paintings are nothing less than attempts to revive the energy of Rubens. A subtle passion for art is concealed by his apparent belief in banality.
Now Koons is sharing the art he most loves. The power of Rubens, the sensuality of Titian and the naughty painterly pastries of Fragonard clearly fascinate him, and he wants other people to see what he sees. This is not simply a line of luxury bags. It is an artist’s meditation on the masters, in handbag form. Picasso copied and reworked great paintings in his later years. Koons is offering a different kind of art lesson, and it is a joy. I want to see the names FRAGONARD and RUBENS glowing on Oxford Street, on Fifth Avenue, their masterpieces walking out of the museum into modern lives.
Jeff Koons' Louis Vuitton bags: a joyous art history lesson
High art needs all the friends it can get. Museum attendance is dropping all over the world, and earnest attempts to court the young and identify with the new are clearly not working. Something more eloquent is needed: unequivocal enthusiasm for great art in a language people in the 21st century understand.
How about a Louis Vuitton bag with RUBENS written on it in big gold letters over a reproduction of that 17th-century painter’s violent, exuberant and gorgeous work Tiger, Lion and the Leopard Hunt?
I can’t think of a simpler way to put great art at the forefront of modern minds. This is not a cynical exercise. The hunt painting is not a pop icon – yet – but a serious painting beloved by art connoisseurs. Jeff Koons, for instance.
Rubens is one of the great painters Koons has chosen to celebrate in a line of bags for Vuitton. Koons, a notorious appropriation artist, is infamous for turning kitsch images and objects into art, but for his range of handbags, rucksacks and other expensive accessories he is turning great art back into popular culture. Just as Andy Warhol created Warholised versions of Renaissance art, Koons has turned the old masters into fashion must-haves (if you can afford them – prices range up to $4,000).
Frills, foliage and flesh … Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s work adorns a Vuitton bag designed by Jeff Koons. Photograph: Louis Vuitton
For from rubbing Rubens in the dirt and reducing the sublime to the worthless, these luxury objects look to me like heartfelt homages to great art. Koons clearly has an erudite and passionate love of oil painting, for while his bags touting the Mona Lisa and Van Gogh’s Wheat Field With Cypresses may be easy on our brains, he is also bravely educating us by insisting on the glamour of Rubens, Titianand Fragonard.
provocative painting of a partly nude young woman playing with a fluffy dog in bed has at least two similarities with his own creations. His giant floral statues of puppies are among his most brilliant subversions of what modern art is supposed to look like, and the painting’s voyeurism shares his appetite for blurring the line between art and pornography.
Notice this, and you see Jeff Koons in a different way. This is an artist who looks at – and thinks about – art from the past, and finds his most brilliant ideas there. The 18th-century rococo and the strange genius of Fragonard is not something he discovered yesterday. He has been drawing on the rococo for his sculpturesfor a long time. Similarly, his flamboyant super-pop paintings are nothing less than attempts to revive the energy of Rubens. A subtle passion for art is concealed by his apparent belief in banality.
Now Koons is sharing the art he most loves. The power of Rubens, the sensuality of Titian and the naughty painterly pastries of Fragonard clearly fascinate him, and he wants other people to see what he sees. This is not simply a line of luxury bags. It is an artist’s meditation on the masters, in handbag form. Picasso copied and reworked great paintings in his later years. Koons is offering a different kind of art lesson, and it is a joy. I want to see the names FRAGONARD and RUBENS glowing on Oxford Street, on Fifth Avenue, their masterpieces walking out of the museum into modern lives.
I love the Fragonard!!! Another purse to add to my "grail" list!
Hmmm...not in stores yet and currently listed on eBay. And less than 24 hours from the release to list. Someone from that early "inner circle" perhaps, since it is in hand and the ship date is current? ...
...OR A SCAM.
http://m.ebay.com/itm/Louis-Vuitton...%3A621a749515b0a3588334970bfffe593e%7Ciid%3A1
...OR A SCAM.
http://m.ebay.com/itm/Louis-Vuitton...%3A621a749515b0a3588334970bfffe593e%7Ciid%3A1
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Imho...
I can't help but think that if it wasn't Koons who did the concept and visual design and instead a well known and highly respected fashion designer like Lagerfeld or Jacobs that it would be more accepted. I think some would be swayed to say it is inspirational, trendsetter, high art meets everyday life ... It's like when you see something and you say meh..eewww..and then a celebrity endorses it and then it turns into yeah i see the beauty now.. not that Koons is not...he is just not well known for those who do not follow art.. for those who do is used to what he created like the balloons. I like that he is wanting to show us what he sees in these works of art up close and personal.
I can't help but think that if it wasn't Koons who did the concept and visual design and instead a well known and highly respected fashion designer like Lagerfeld or Jacobs that it would be more accepted. I think some would be swayed to say it is inspirational, trendsetter, high art meets everyday life ... It's like when you see something and you say meh..eewww..and then a celebrity endorses it and then it turns into yeah i see the beauty now.. not that Koons is not...he is just not well known for those who do not follow art.. for those who do is used to what he created like the balloons. I like that he is wanting to show us what he sees in these works of art up close and personal.
I think he was referring to the actual monogram pattern based on what i see on the side and front of the speedy.