Robyn Kahukiwa AS 90913 v4 internal assessment Blog 4

Barbara Kruger 

https://www.nga.gov/education/teachers/lessons-activities/modern-art/text-art.html

 

Barbara Kruger made her own art in 1969 while writing poetry, film and television reviews. Later, she had developed her "picture practice" with photographs repurposed from vintage manuals and magazines, which she had overlaid with her own texts or commonplace phrases. 

She places her statements and questions over the images to confront the idea of representation. 

Describe the artwork:

This artwork shows a statue facing away from us with a black background. 

 The light symbolizes the word gaze hitting the statue's face. 

 The focal point is the face 

The words say "Your gaze hits the side of my face"

In my interpretation, Barbara Kruger used this image to show the male gaze. The statue is representing a woman and the light is the man gazing at the statues face. 

Barbara Kruger shows text and image working together through adding text on an image and making it a different meaning through adding text and gives us a unique perspective than what the actual object was meant to portray. She uses black and white images and provoking words in white and red. 

The art scene was male-dominated before and women artists were often rejected at exhibitions because of their gender which she thought had to be changed. Through her artwork, she can express her statements to gain equality. 

compared to Tracey Tawhiao's artworks, she shows the themes of feminism subtly as with words and symbols in her grids. Every panel has a meaning and is intentional.