Monday, 2 November 2015

Barbara Kruger - Conceptual Artist

Barbara Kruger is an American feminist conceptual artist, graphic designer and photographer. She is best known for her prints where she placed a concise caption across photographs from existing sources. Her text speaks to the viewer to get leave them a message which are to do with feminism, consumerism, classicism and more.

Her work is inspiring as each piece of art holds the same idea of displaying a strong and bold message to get across to the viewer. I very much like this idea and would like to do something similar with my posters; using a strong fact I have gained from my research - as a way to shock the audience and get their attention. 

Here I have created a collage demonstrating some of my favourites and the most influential pieces of her work in my opinion.



I very much like how Barbara's images here are extremely simple but are so eye catching and interesting at the same time. I really like her idea of using a black and white simplistic image - mainly of either people or close up body parts such as the hands. 

She then uses the vibrant red colour on top of this which stands out and grabs the viewers attention - this is something I want my posters to do. I will do something similar with my posters and use short sentences and words to get a message across with simple images.

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