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Barbara Kruger (b. 1945) is an American conceptual artist. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar The United States of America —commonly referred to as the She was born in Newark, New Jersey and left there in 1964 to attend Syracuse University. Newark is the largest city in New Jersey, United States and the County seat of Essex County. Syracuse University (SU is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York. After a year at Syracuse, she moved to New York, where she began attending Parsons School of Design. Parsons The New School for Design (abbreviated Parsons) is a Design school founded in 1896 (see below She studied with Diane Arbus and Marvin Israel, who, as a graphic designer and art director for Harper's Bazaar in the 1960s, introduced Kruger to photographers and fashion/magazine sub-cultures. Diane Arbus ( March 14 1923 – July 26 1971) was an American Photographer, noted for her portraits of people on the Marvin Israel (b1924 - d May 7 1984) was an American artist painter from New York known for mod interiors abstract imagery Harper's Bazaar is a well-known American Fashion Magazine, first published in 1867 After a year at Parsons, Kruger left school and started to work at Mademoiselle magazine as an entry-level designer. Mademoiselle was an influential women's Magazine first published in 1935 by Street and Smith and later acquired by

Much of Kruger's graphic work consists of black-and-white photographs with overlaid captions set in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique. Black-and-white is a number of Monochrome forms in Visual arts. A photograph (often shortened to photo) is an Image created by Light falling on a light-sensitive surface usually Photographic film or an electronic Typesetting involves the presentation of textual material in graphic form on Paper or some other medium. Futura is a geometric Sans-serif Typeface designed between 1924 and 1926 by Paul Renner. The phrases included in her work are usually declarative, and make common use of such pronouns as "you," "I," "we," and "they. " The juxtaposition of Kruger's imagery with text containing criticism of sexism and misogyny and the circulation of power within cultures is a recurring motif in the work. Sexism is the belief or attitude that one Gender or Sex is inferior to or less valuable than the other and can also refer to a Hatred or distrust towards Misogyny (mɪˈsɒdʒɪni is hatred (or contemptof women Misogyny is parallel to Misandry — the hatred of men

For the past decade Kruger has created installations of video, film, audio and projection. Video is the technology of electronically capturing, Recording, processing storing transmitting and reconstructing a sequence of Still images Enveloping the viewer with the seductions of direct address, her work is consistently about the kindnesses and brutalities of social life: about how we are to one another.

"Kruger's works are direct and evoke an immediate response. Usually her style involves the cropping of a magazine or newspaper image enlarged in black and white. The enlargement of the image is done as crudely as possible to monumental proportions. A message is stenciled on the image, usually in white letters against a background of red. A stencil is a Template used to draw or paint identical letters, Symbols, Shapes or Patterns every The text and image are unrelated in an effort to create anxiety by the audience that plays on the fears of society. Anxiety is a physiological and psychological state characterized by Cognitive, Somatic, Emotional and Behavioral components " (Janson, p. 992).

In 2005 Kruger was honored at the 51st Venice Biennale with the "Golden Lion" for Lifetime Achievement. The Venice Biennale (Biennale di Venezia also called in English the "Venice Biennial " is a major Contemporary art exhibition that takes place once Kruger is currently a professor at the University of California at Los Angeles. The University of California Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood Los Angeles, California, United

In 2007, Kruger was one of the women artists to be a part of South Korea's Incheon Women Artists' Biennale in Seoul. Seoul ( soʊl is the Capital and largest City of South Korea. This marked South Korea's first women's biennial. South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea and often referred to as Korea ( Korean: 대한민국 tɛː [1]

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  1. ^ South Korea Kicks off First Women's Biennial, ARTINFO, November 6, 2007, <http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/26010/south-korea-kicks-off-first-womens-biennial/>. Retrieved on 16 April 2008 

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