The Pictures Generation

Barbara Kruger – Your body is a battleground

Paintings / 5 minutes of reading

Untitled (Your Body is a Battleground) is an iconic 1989 silkscreen portrait made by artist, feminist and activist Barbara Kruger. Though the poster was meant for the pro-choice march on April 9th, 1989, in DC, the portrait is now used mainly to voice the artist’s own opinion about gender inequality. The piece is much more […]

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Cindy Sherman - Untitled Film Still #43, 1979 feat

Cindy Sherman’s Untitled film stills – Her groundbreaking self portraits

Photography / 10 minutes of reading

Cindy Sherman was born in 1954 in New Jersey. She grew up in Long Beach, immersed in the television and film culture of the era. This period was shaped by nuclear war worries, capitalism, and the growing blitz of images selling all sorts of commercial products, including cigarettes, washing machines, bras, cars, and so on.

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Barbara Kruger’s I shop therefore I am – What you should know

Paintings / 5 minutes of reading

I Shop Therefore I Am (1987) is the work of Barbara Kruger. It became an iconic artwork, being reproduced on items such as shopping bags and other consumer products such as t-shirts. Kruger has often derived images from the mass media and pasted the words over them, particularly in Futura Bold. She then uses advertising

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Cindy Sherman’s Bus Riders – The story behind

Photography / 4 minutes of reading

We all must have experienced a different type of people at bus stops. Bus stops might have the most variety of human beings in any city. Starting from the rich, poor, punks, students, old, housewives, workers, and a lot more. Cindy Sherman observed these people and wanted to capture this diversity. In this series of

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What font is used in Barbara Kruger’s art?

Paintings, Sculptures / 3 minutes of reading

Barbara Kruger’s art is easily one of the most recognizable on the planet. Characterized by the bold white Futura Oblique and sometimes caps locked sans serif, her artwork forces audiences to take a hard look at the institutions that she satirizes. Both direct and political, her art is designed to question the modern political and

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Barbara Kruger wrapped entire buses in her iconic prints

Installations / 6 minutes of reading

From the late 1990s to recent years, Pictures Generation conceptual artist/activist Barbara Kruger has wrapped several buses in her prints – in New York, Los Angeles and Cologne. Her work is usually known for its bold, eye-catching design and philosophical themes. About Barbara Kruger Barbara Kruger is a New Jersey-born conceptual artist known for her

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