Art History
This is called the (Untitled) “Your Body Is A Battleground” art piece and this is by Barbara Kruger and was published to the world on the 30/06/1989,
The media that Barbara Kruger uses is a photo she has found, that she has then put in with her photos to make her own in black and white and adding red and “Futura Bold” lettering to the art piece to make it her own and to make it match the art piece itself. With this she then gets it produced and up around cities for people to see and to understand what the art piece means to feminine people.
Barbara Kruger had designed fliers for her art piece to rally in Washington D.C during the female rally, The so called powerful flier was a distribute for the march and the phrasing became a rallying cry for women while the Roe V. Wade decision “was in the process of being turned over”.
Barbara Kruger has been saying:
“I think that there is an accessibility to pictures and words that we have learned to read very fluently through advertising and through the technological development of photography and film and video.”
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Barbara Kruger was born in Newark, New Jersey, United States. And her Birthdate is January 26 1945, Barbara Kruger had a Middle-Class Family, Her Father was a Chemical technician and her Mother worked as a Legal Secretary. Barbara Kruger is an only child and was growing up in a Middle-Class neighbourhood. Barbara Kruger went to Weequahic High School in Newark, She was artistically inclined at a really young age and as she started getting into art more she wanted to pursue her art in a higher education in art and design. Barbara Kruger enrolled in Syracuse University as an undergraduate where she began to study art and design.
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- The media used such as the red, its outlining and putting colour into her art piece so it has some type of meaning
The newspaper scanned, She has scanned a newspaper picture of half of a females face and added it into her own art piece to have a comparison of her work with the newspaper.
Females face to go with the newspaper half of the face so you see the comparison of it being real and fake and to show what a female looks like in all natural features.
The wording, Barbara Kruger wants us to understand what the word mean towards a feminist herself and why she put the meaning so that every male understands what a female goes through.
The public reaction the Barbara Kruger's piece of art was eye catching ad it was helpful for the women rallying in Washington D.C., The image helped the female with the rally and the rally turned into a crying rally.
