Text and Image Blogpost

 Barbara Kruger:

Barbara

    Barbara Kruger, born in January 26th, 1945, was an iconic artist during her career. As an activist her art inspired many people across the United States to be their own person as a woman living in her time.

Her Artwork:

    Simplistic, but impactful, Barbara's artwork was nothing more than a picture that contained some sort of gesture or human feature, and combined it with  simple phrases or words to make the people who saw her artwork think, and think deeply. Some famous works include the caption, "I shop, therefore I am," "Your body is a battleground," and "You are not yourself." All of these were advertised with bold letters in newspapers to bring attention to her viewers and readers, to make them curious on what's happening in society.

Modern Day:

       Even though it was years ago, the art today still inspires many people, businesses, and advertisers to use her art, or format of Text and Image. Old diners still have some posters, Surpreme uses her art style as basic yet fashionable, huge white text with red background, and people still look up to it as a sign that anyone can do anything, as long as there's hope.

My Art:

    Words can give a lot of impact and meaning if properly introduce or given with emotion rather than a dull concept. I can use Text and Imagery by overlaying the right scene with a simplistic title, or because my theme of the year is time, a basic clock function with text can be put on the screen to show the flow of time, or a date, or even a small inspirational phrase, etc. That's multiple ways of expressing emotion or personal thinking with Text and Imagery. It doesn't even have to be impactful, a small added detail can show a lot of dedication to a film or what the audience wants to know or see.

    The one thing that interested me was that Barbara's artwork didn't have to be special at all, in fact it wasn't she didn't go over the top with multiple pictures, or a lot of words to give out the information for her views, she made it small and simple, and made the readers do all the thinking, to inspire themselves, rather than letting her be the person to inspire them.