Barbara Kruger :

Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist and collagist associated with the Pictures Generation. She is most known for her collage style that consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions, stated in white-on-red Future Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed text.

Achievements :

In 2005, Kruger was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale, where she was also commissioned to design the façade of Italy’s national pavilion. In 2019, the artist was awarded the Kaiserring also known as Emperor’s Ring prize from the city of Goslar, in Germany.

how did she become known?

Barbara Kruger used her classical training in design and her experience in the fashion industry to create conceptual art that pushed audiences to question assumptions about gender, violence, patriotism, and their relationship to the media. At age 22, she became chief designer at Mademoiselle. This is when Barbara Kruger’s career first began.

what is Barbara Kruger’s most famous artwork?

This is Barbara Kruger’s most famous artwork, this image creates a story of what it was like for women to live back in 1989, as they face struggles of having no rights, and having to live a stereotypical life as a stay at home mother, cleaner and not given the rights to freedom as much as men were.

This image is very unique as it really paints a clear image to anyone viewing the image, and points out the clear factors of life back then.

What was Barbara Kruger first artwork?

Kruger’s earliest artworks date to 1969. Large woven wall hangings of yarn, beads, sequins, feathers, and ribbons, they exemplify the feminist recuperation of craft during this period

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Description

Barbara Kruger’s work focuses a lot on both femininity and masculinity however it has more of a focus on femininity, she takes black and white photos of each gender and uses words and phrases over her images to express certain feelings and conceptions about both women and men.

personal opinion

I really like Barbara Kruger’s photography as she uses many techniques in which clearly represent what she is trying to make people see within her images. Her use of black and white images creates the effect of ancient/old images taking the viewer back in time to the early 1980s when her photography was taken, her use of red writing over the top of these images creates a very special effect to the images while also giving it a meaning as the colour red was used to signify women.

Cindy Sherman :

Cindy Sherman, was born January 19, 1954, Glen Ridge, New Jersey, U.S. American photographer known for her images particularly her elaborately “disguised” self-portraits that comment on social role-playing and sexual stereotypes.

achievements :

Cindy’s work is included in the collections of the Tate Gallery, London; the Museum of Modern Art; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. Sherman has received numerous awards, including the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography in 1999 and a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 1995.

Why is Cindy Sherman important?

Cindy Sherman is one of the best-known and most important artists working today. Her decades-long performative practice of photographing herself under different guises has produced many of contemporary art’s most iconic and influential images.

Her photography inspired many people of all different ages, races and gender, this made her work very unique and stand out to many people causing her to become very well known and even respected for her work.

Cindy Sherman’s most famous work

One of Cindy Sherman’s most famous pieces is ” Untitled Film Still #21.” The piece, which is part of a series of black-and-white photographs, features Sherman in various guises as she adopts different personas.

Cindy’s work inspired people that everyone can be different even when they are the same person as in a lot of her photography she would dress up in many different personas to create different types of people and unique looks.

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description

Cindy Sherman’s photography presents women and how they are portrayed in society many years ago, some to most of her images show specific roles or activities that females were known to do due to stereotypes.