Bear and Policeman
Jeff Koons
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Date:1988 -
Style:Neo-Pop Art, Conceptual Art -
Genre:sculpture -
Media:wood
Bear and Policeman
Jeff Koons
A smiling brown bear wearing a striped T-shirt has his arm around a shorter policeman who is looking up at the animal.
"The relatively diminutive constable, a symbol of authority, contrasts comically with the bear's monstrous size and relative harmlessness. Looking helplessly up at the bear, the expression on the policeman's face holds the key to enjoying Koons' work: a temporary suspension of adulthood, a return to seeing the world through a child's perspective. Koons seems to hint that the adult world, with its explicit content, greed and shame, is worth staving off."
— Angelina Krahn, Art writer for Express Milwaukee[9]
