Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger is an American artist from New Jersey, she study in Syracuse University,  she studied with fellow artists/photographers Diane Arbus and Marvin Israel and later she work at Mademoiselle magazine.

Barbara works involve conceptual artist and the use of image on black and white mixed with text in red. The contrast between this images and text, show to different kind of view difficult to coexist. But together contain a message of critic about sexism and power over the cultures.

“I am interested in works that address these material conditions of our lives: that recognize the uses and abuses of power both an intimate and global level.” (Barbara Kruger, 1982)

During her early work she was more focused in feminism, politic, social, racial, gender stereotypes and consumerism and started to develop her techniques as a graphic design. This works were addresses to calls attention to the people using ironic text and simple image. In recent years creating public installations like bus or billboards, wall to assault the viewer and critique the modern American culture.

“The early work may have been more psychoanalytically inflected and later work more focused on late capitalism’s consumerism, it always addresses the complex interconnection of gender and the marketplace.”

Quotations

‘Feminism and Contemporary Art’                                                                                                                    Jo Anna Issak (1996) by Routledge

http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/feminist/Barbara-Kruger.html

http://www.barbarakruger.com/