Her work mainly encompasses black and white photographs paired with a red and white caption which facilitates communication between herself and the viewer of her art. A notable work in this medium was Your Body is a battleground (1989), which depicted a woman partly in black and white, with the captions "Your Body is a battleground".
« I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.»
Barbara Kruger
The piece was made in support for the March For Women's Lives protest of 1989, which sought for the reproductive rights of women and was associated with other postmodern
feminist artists of that time such as
Cindy Sh Read More Her work mainly encompasses black and white photographs paired with a red and white caption which facilitates communication between herself and the viewer of her art. A notable work in this medium was Your Body is a battleground (1989), which depicted a woman partly in black and white, with the captions "Your Body is a battleground".
« I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of moments into something visual, or textual, or musical, whatever. Art creates a kind of commentary.»
Barbara Kruger
The piece was made in support for the March For Women's Lives protest of 1989, which sought for the reproductive rights of women and was associated with other postmodern
feminist artists of that time such as
Cindy Sherman and Jenny Holzer. Kruger has also used video and audio as a medium for her artwork, which follow her central style of communicating with the viewers of her art. Kruger artwork has been highly influential in the visual art scene, and continues to be openly critical of popular culture through her art as well as her essays to which she has contributed to. (
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