Barbara Kruger has had a career span as a designer for four decades who focused on creating responsive art towards society. She created a style that exemplifies the chaos from political, social, and historical events that have lead to the concern of freedom, sexism, and consumerism in our daily lives and the hypocrisy we create and surround ourselves with right now. She is better known as being identified as a feminist artist, for creating the voice of women that she wants to be heard. Kruger speaks nothing but the truth with the help of different media like installations in specific locations, films incorporated in her installations, and collage works she is able to display easily in our lives.
Barbara Kruger was born in Newark, New Jersey
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One of her famous pieces on behalf of speaking for women is, “Untitled (Your Body is a Battleground)”, which speaks about reproductive health. This powerful image was used in 1989 in Washington D.C. where civilians marched to support the pro-choice position and the reproductive rights for women. Barbara was strictly against women’s bodies being in control of conservatives, she believed women wouldn’t be in control of their bodies if they had the law going against them. She didn’t stop from there, after creating the powerful piece she recreated another version and decided to make it into a billboard. That is not the striking thing about it, the striking thing was she placed it right next to a billboard of fetus growing, it was pro-choice versus pro-life. According to Silvia Minguzzi, “These designs were more than the works of an artist. They were the works of an activist, who was adamant about her beliefs in a woman’s rights. In these works, power (and who wields this power) is a primary concern (“Women Reproductive Rights”). The power that Kruger has is she challenges and confronts viewers in an invisible way, but after realization you see that the concern is clearly