Barbara Kruger - Day Three

Barbara Kruger Inspirations and Influences

Barbara has a couple influences/inspirations for her work. Her biggest influence of all though is pop culture and media. She believes media makes people feel a certain way and makes sure that people can see that the media 'manipulates' us through her artwork. She wants to show reality in her artwork which the media tends to hide. It makes people believe virtually impossible things so she makes sure people who view her work can see how the media and pop culture actually is. She likes to twist the words the media spits out at us so that we can understand it in an easier and deeper way. So, media and pop culture are the main influence of all of Barbara's work.

Article:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Barbara-Krugers-Artwork-Speaks-Truth-to-Power-160281585.html

Barbara Kruger - Day Two

Barbara Kruger's Inspiration

Barbara Kruger had a couple of different inspirations for her work. She went to school for graphic design so she liked to put that into her artwork.She was inspired though by another woman artist, Magdalena Abakanowicz. She liked how the artist how intelligence was challenged in the work. It helped shape how she wanted her work to be seen as. This inspired her to start teaching, writing criticism about television and cinema, and to curate exhibitions which then centered on the focus of her work, advertisement and media.


Article:
 http://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/kruger-barbara

Barbara Kruger - Day One

Day One

I believe this photograph has a lot of meaning to it. To me, it says that your body goes through a lot of trials. The trials turn you from one kind of person to another. You learn from it and change because of it. I also see it as a 'Before and After' picture. The left side is who you are before you had all the trials in your life and the left is the outcome of the trials. The right side looks fiercer to me than the left side too. This says to me that the trials you have gone through makes you tougher and stronger as well. The difference between them isn't too huge, but you can definitely tell the change between them. Another detail I noticed is that she kind of looks two faced. It seems like she has had to put up a guard for herself to protect her from these trials as well. I could interpret many different meanings to this picture, but I believe those are the main meanings behind it.