Barbara Kruger

Born in 1945 Barbara Kruger is an American artist from New Jersey renowned for her aggressive and controversial pieces that often question various subjects such as feminism, classism, consumerism and individual anatomy and desire.

Her background of work is evident in her art, previously working as head designer for Mademoiselle Magazine and then moving on to be a graphic designer, art director and picture editor. Being a subversive artist Kruger often challenges the mainstream magazines by using the images from the very magazines that are trying to sell the image.

This is one of my favourite subversive artists, I think that Kruger has managed to highlight the social stigma about how magazines have portrayed women and almost set a standard of how women should look.
















I think that by using the very images that sell the concepts she is disputing and adding the subversive text to the images, she is highlighting the obvious about the images and I think that it really works.