Barbara Kruger Your Body Analysis

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Barbara Kruger is a conceptual, feminist artist. Barbara Kruger's graphic work mostly consists of black and white photographs with captions in red with a white font. The phrases Kruger uses usually make a bold statement and sometimes uses pronouns, for example, you, I, your/you’re, we and they. She compares imagery with text that contains criticism of sexism, misogyny, and cultural power structures. A lot of the text makes us question about feminism, consumerism, and individual autonomy, although her black and white images are picked from popular magazines that sell the very ideas she is debating. One of Kruger’s work is Untitled (Your Body is a battleground), is an 112” by 112” photographic silkscreen on vinyl. Kruger’s words and images …show more content…

Instead of women’s rights, like the original, I decided to do my project on domestic violence. 20% of women have been violated physically, mentally, and/or sexual from their partner. Not just women are abused in the relationship, men can also be the victim. Roughly 7% of men will be abused in a relationship by their partner. People do not think men as the victim in a domestic violent relationship, but anyone can be a victim, not just in heterosexual relationships. About 22% of men and 35% of women living with a same-sex partner have experience any type of a domestic violent relationship. In fact, same-sex relationships are more likely, in men and women, to have some type of domestic violent relationship than men and women in a heterosexual relationship. But no matter who is in the relationship and/or what type of relationship it is, domestic violence is wrong. Many victims who are suffering either do not actually realize that they are in a horrible situation or do not know where to go or who to talk to about it. They wonder who will listen or actually believe …show more content…

The work is an 18 by 24-inch poster, photographed and edited in Photoshop. I chose this medium because it closely resembles the same style Kruger does with her works of art. For the photo, I took a photo of myself with one side of my face normal and the other side cut and bruised up, as if I was abused. In Photoshop, I edited the photo so I would look beaten, while not looking I beautified the photo. After I added two rectangles to the side and three in the middle with the words “YOUR LOVE IS MY PAIN”. I chose these words because I thought it showed a great example of domestic violence. I see this and think of how a person who abuses their partner and usually when they stop, they’ll say they are sorry, they didn’t mean to, it’s only because they love them, and they make them do it. Also, victim’s standpoint, they are too afraid to leave their partner, either because she’ll never find anyone else, the man will beat her more, they love their partner and think they’ll stop one day, or they think they deserve what their partner does to

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