Jeff Koons

Jeff Koons created this sculpture that is called Puppy. It took him over three months to create this sculpture. He began on December 12, 1995 and ended it finally on March 17, 1996 (Art Gallery of NSW). It was insane how large it was, while standing at 12.4 meters high(Art Gallery of NSW). This type of art for the Puppy is called topiary which is a form of gardening art (Art Gallery of NSW). He started out with just a huge steel substructure to outline a dog and covered it with hand-wire-mesh. On top of that was lined with soil and prepared by an internal irrigation system. The last part was the 60,000 plants all over to finish the Puppy structure (Art Gallery of NSW).

"I'm always trying to create work that doesn't make viewers feel their being spoken down to, so that they feel open participation, said Jeff Koons." The Puppy sculpture seemed to catch a lot of younger childrens eyes. Of course children love colorful objects and pets so i can see why. His work on this sculpture is said to explore contemporary obsessions with celebrity, sexuality and desire. It also is looked at as advertising and the media because it is out in the open for everyone to observe (Art Gallery of NSW). His work on the Puppy is special because it is out in the public for people to see and thats not how the other artists did their works. The creation of the Puppy was to bring happyness and entertainment to the publics eyes.

I did not think the Puppy sculpture reminded me of anything from class other than it is conceptual art. Koons figured out what he was going to with this project before hand, then after he had is directions he started creating the sculpture. I thought the puppy sculpture was agreat idea with all the flowers and I would love to see something like that. I have no other references for this art made here so I am not sure what else to say. If you had to ask me what i believed it reminded me of, then I would say Cliffered the big red dog.

Art Gallery of NSW. 2009. "1995 Jeff Koons." 23 Nov. 2009.
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/