Contributions from members provide essential support to Mia and a year of valuable benefits to you! Jeff Koons derives inspiration from the role of material objects in our lives and the consumerism of society as a whole. Whether children’s toys, porcelain figurines, or glossy pages of a magazine selling products and lifestyles targeted to our personal pleasures, tastes, and desires, he blows up our obsessions with tongue firmly planted in cheek. In both content and execution, this painting shocked the art world and Picasso’s close friends. Although nude women as subjects were not unusual, blatantly portraying prostitutes in aggressively sexual …