Snoopy..?
Sculpture of a dog at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
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Yoshitomo Nara Japanese, b.1959 Your Dog Fiberglass, black paint, clear coat Nara's canine sculpture evokes the large stone guardians, often called "lion dogs" stationed at entrances of Shinto shrines to ward off evil spirits. It may also remind us of just how big a dog can seem when you are small — the immense scale of Your Dog adds an element of menace as it towers over us. Although they recall the artist's own youth, Nara's works subvert conventional depictions of childhood as happy, simple, and carefree. First rising to prominence in the mid-1990s, Nara is part of a generation of Japanese Neo Pop artists who employ the style and vocabulary of contemporary popular culture in order to both critique and celebrate it.
