Week 6- last blog for semester 2-Barbara Kruger
Research Kruger's work to find an example from the 1970s or 1980s to compare with a more recent work. How has Kruger's work changed with the developments in contemporary visual arts? Describe a recent work that moves away from the 'poster' type work of her early career.
Find 2-3 works by Kruger to add to your blog.
American conceptual/pop artist Barbara Kruger is internationally renowned for her signature black, white and red poster-style works of art that convey in-your-face messages on women's rights and issues of power. Coming out of the magazine publishing industry, Kruger knows precisely how to capture the viewer's attention with her bold and witty photomurals displayed on billboards, bus stops and public transportation as well as in major museums and galleries wordwide. She has edited books on cultural theory, including Remaking History for the Dia Foundation, and has published articles in the New York Times, Artforum, and other periodicals. Monographs on her work include Love for Sale, We Won't Play Nature to Your Culture and others. She is represented in New York by Mary Boone Gallery. A major exhibition of her work will be presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in fall 1999, and at the Whitney Museum in New York in 2000.
Barbara Kruger. (American, born 1945). Rage + Women = Power, cover for Ms. magazine. January/February 1992. Photolithograph, composition and sheet: 10 3/4 x 8 3/8″ (27.4 x 21.3 cm). Publisher and printer: Lang Communications, New York. Edition: mass produced. Purchase. © 2008 Barbara Kruger
July 8, 2007
TITLE: We Will No Longer Be Seen and Not Heard. /1992
Her works are characterised by their provocative and introducing black & white photographic images and bold statements.
Since the early 1970’s Kruger has been using slogans to question the social and political forces within society and to promote causes she believes in such as supporting legal abortion and fighting domestic violence.
Between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, Barbara Kruger, working as a graphic designer for popular magazines,gained recognition in the art world for photo-based images overlaid with blocks of text in a signature color scheme of black & white
and red. Her practice of culling and editing found photographs and of pairing them with phrases in provocative ways was informed by her interest in feminism and critical theory. These investigations into the seemingly innocuous and yet potentially insidious ways in which ideological messages infiltrate daily life by means of the mass media continue today, although she has more recently expanded her repertoire to include installations with video and audio components and oversized sculptures.
How does the audience experience a more spatial, installation art work compared with a poster?
In my opinion, installing spatial art work requires including video, audio components and oversized sculptures, because its dynamic sound and its huge oversized sculptures can make audience feel more spatial. However, the 2D poster is more about visual communication between audience and artwork.
What elements does Kruger use in her work to create a strong impact?
She only represent 3 colour, which is black & white and red and she used many layers for introducing images(overlap). Also, she used bold text to some main point to give strong impact and it is successfully done.
references
http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/feminist/Barbara-Kruger.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kruger
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