Guerilla Girls Research Paper

The Guerilla Girls are an elite group of female artists that no one knows the identities to. Not only does no one know the members identities, but also no one knows how to find them. The scary part about it is that if they want to find you, they will. As I said earlier, each member is an artist, and the group formed around 1985 when the New York Museum of Modern Art opened. The museum included an astonishing number of paintings from 169 different artists, but less than 10 percent were women artists. The first action that the Guerilla Girls did was making posters educating the people of inequalities in the art industry. One of their first posters said “WHAT DO THESE ARTIST HAVE IN COMMON,” and then went on to say that they were all male. The Guerilla Girls continued to display posters all over town emphasizing the inequality women face in art. The main targets that the Guerilla Girls attacked were critics, museums, and galleries. All the posters they made included great graphical design and all had a deep meaning. Once the Guerilla Girls started to get noticed they moved into on-site appearances as well as posters. The group would dress in gorilla masks, short skirts, and lacy stockings. Often the Guerilla Girls even waved around bananas. The Guerilla Girls had such a successful campaign that the media ate it up almost instantly. The group was being interviewed and even given the
This is mainly because I cannot name one past or current female artist. Art has historically been a very unequal practice, very much so favoring males. Until there is equality in art I believe that the Guerilla Girls should exist. I enjoyed reading this article and think that the Guerilla Girls have a very good cause for what they are doing. The best part about it is that they are doing their so called protesting legally. Because of this, I respect them and the goal they are trying to reach, which is abolishing inequalities in