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neurofluxation ago

LITERALLY DAYS AGO THIS WAS DEBUNKED. MOVE ON TO MORE CONCRETE LEADS FFS.

In 1989 the Whitney Museum and its guest curator Marvin Heiferman asked Koons to make an artwork about the media on a billboard[8] for the show "Image World: Art and Media Culture". Koons employed his then wife Ilona Staller ("Cicciolina") as a model in the shoot that formed the basis of the resulting work for the Whitney, Made in Heaven (1990–91).[34] Including works with such titles as Dirty Ejaculation and Ilonaʼs Asshole, the series of enormous grainy[35] photographs printed on canvas, glassworks, and sculptures portrayed Koons and Staller in highly explicit sexual positions and created considerable controversy. The paintings of the series reference art from the Baroque and Rococo periods—among others, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Jean-Honoré Fragonard and François Boucher—and also draw upon the breakthroughs of early modern painters as Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet.[36] The series was first shown at the 1990 Venice Biennale.[37] Koons reportedly destroyed much of the work when Staller took their son Ludwig with her to Italy.[38] In celebration of Made in Heaven's 20th anniversary, Luxembourg & Dayan chose to present a redux edition of the series.[36][39][40] The Whitney Museum also exhibited several of the photographs on canvas in their 2014 retrospective.

TL;DR: Koons employed his then wife Ilona Staller ("Cicciolina") as a model.

cakeoflightylight ago

While it's a relief that it was explained, literally days ago? Personally I would have looked into this myself but was too afraid to screenshot the photo and do a reverse image search thanks to the fact that it does look like a much smaller ass in the photo of the "woman"- I appreciate the information.

neurofluxation ago

No problem. But you should of just searched over there ->

cakeoflightylight ago

I looked at this again and honestly, it's pretty pre-pubescent in appearance. Is there somewhere that has more of their pictures to confirm this? LIke a non cropped one.