Kruger addresses media and politics in their native tongue: sensational, authoritative, and direct. Personal pronouns like “you” and “I” are staples of Kruger’s practice, bringing the viewer into each piece. “Direct address has motored my work from the very beginning,” Kruger said. “I like it because it cuts through the grease.” Kruger’s work prompts us to interrogate our own positions; in the artist’s words, “to question and change the systems that contain us.”

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She demands that we consider how our identities are formed within culture, through representation in language and image.

Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger

Untitled (Who owns what?)

1991/2012

digital print on vinyl

Barbara Kruger

Untitled (You are not yourself)

1982

Black-and-white photograph

72 X 48 in.

Barbara Kruger

We Don’t Need Another Hero

1986

Collage

Barbara Kruger

Untitled (Gender is irrelevant)

1989

Photographic Silkscreen on Vinyl

126 x 112 inches

Barbara Kruger

Untitled

1985

Collage

Barbara Kruger

You are a Very Special Person

1995

Photographic silkscreen on vinyl

93 x 126 in

Barbara Kruger

A Barbara Kruger inspired artwork

• Is there something you feel very strongly about? What has really bothered you lately?

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• What emotion of do you want to communicate? What do you want the viewer to feel?

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• Use collage images. Start by assembling different images of things that represent what you are feeling. Use some text if needed.

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• What values or colors do you want to use, what would be best to communicate your idea? Will contrast help you to communicate what you want to say?

Videos to follow along to make a Barbara Kruger Inspired work of art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAUXnCN2Huw

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Landscape Collage

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Collage Techniques

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Collage and stamping techniques

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The video above all use markers, try to make an artwork using paint instead like Keith Haring!