It's semantics, but if you consider Jeff Koons to be an artist, then yes. AFAIK he has never (or at least when he was starting) used his own hands to fully crea

It's semantics, but if you consider Jeff Koons to be an artist, then yes. AFAIK he has never (or at least when he was starting) used his own hands to fully create something, from the very beginning he hired people to do it for him. The "Desired Look" can be considered the "artistic" part of art, while the production can be considered the craft. Koons is the most extreme example I can think of, but there are plenty of others who got their start creating stuff themselves and then hired people to do the total of the work. Is a director an artist, when he doesn't write the script, touch the camera, edit the film, or act in the movie?