Jeff Koons is known to play with scale, often making small simple objects larger than life and sometimes large expansive scenes dramatically small. This strategy allows the artist to explore in depth the presumed dichotomy between abstraction and figuration. His imagery is at once easily recognizable, as he employs familiar content, yet blown up to fill canvases 12 by 16 feet, it can also appear almost abstract at time, reading as giant expanses of bright colors.

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