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#ArtThursday: “Puppy” by Jeff Koons
It’s #ArtThursday time! This week we’re taking a trip to the Museo Guggenheim in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. The museum of modern and contemporary art was designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry and is one of the most admired works of contemporary architecture.
If you to visit the Guggenheim in Bilbao, one of the pieces you’ll surely see is American artist Jeff Koons’s famous “Puppy.” The sculpture of a West Highland White Terrier stands 40 feet (12 meters) tall and is composed of 70,000 flowers, including marigolds, begonias, impatiens, petunias and lobelias. Its stainless steel framework holds over 25 tons of soil watered by an internal irrigation system. The original work was first exhibited in Germany in 1992 and later installed in Bilbao in 1997. To see more photos and videos of the sculpture and the Bilbao’s collection and exhibitions, visit the Museo Guggenheim location page.

Imagine seeing this, what would you think? This larger than life work called Puppy by Jeff Koons is displayed outside of the Museo Guggenheim in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. This sculpture stands about 40 feet and is covered with 70,000 flowers. In a way being the fact that it is a giant puppy it remind me of the cartoon of Clifford the Big Red Dog. The original work was first exhibited in Germany in 1992 and later installed in Bilbao in 1997. Jeff Koons communicates with the masses by drawing from the visual language of advertising, marketing, and the entertainment industry. In this sculpture Jeff Koons engages both the past and the present by employing sophisticated computer modeling while referencing the 18th-century formal garden. Jeff Koons tests the limits between popular and elite culture by extending the lineage of Dada and Marcel Duchamp, and integrating references to Minimalism.

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