Essay On Barbra Kruger

Barbra Kruger is a revolutionary feminist artist that has been shaking modern society for decades. Kruger was born in 1945 in Newark, New Jersey. Currently, she is teaching at the University of California at Los Angeles and resides in the United States in Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles is not the only place she resides, she is known to travel between New York City and Los Angels often (Art 21). Barbra Kruger’s education came about unconventionally by gaining much of her skills through natural talent. She did not take a traditional path and never thought she would become an artist; she considered being a fashion editor early on, but never an artist recognized for her work (Blazwick). According to Art History, Kruger took a year of classes at the Syracuse University in 1964, where she evolved an interest in graphic design and art. The following year, she enrolled in the Parson School of Design. There she studied with many well-known photographers who introduced her to
This piece is in the limited colors of black, white, and red. The image itself is in the right top corner with a red skinny rectangle in white bold letters “Super Rich, Ultra Gorgeous” and in the left bottom corner in the same style it says “Extra Skinny, forever Young.” An attractive young woman is depicted summered in blocky ice water. The women wear a mask over her face, but it still purposely exposes her forehead through the bridge of the nose, with her lips popping out through a cutout. The style of the woman’s image resembles the 1950s. The females eyes in the photo serve as a focal point, however, her implied gaze leads upward. This allows the viewer to be curious where the implied line is vanishing. The work is clean and consists of representational art traditions. Kruger does not take any wild liberty with the editing, she simply adds her