Post 12

Barbara Kruger is a post modern artist. One reason why is that most and nearly all of her artwork comprises of text and image. By her doing this she proliferates a message that offeres a meaning to the whole world. Another aspect she uese is juxaposition. She takes and image of another source and adds a text to it. The image and text then either contrasst or compares to each other, but in doing so a meaning is express. In response to the stradegty she uses; there is commercializing message to it and thats what postmodern artist usually portray. So to sum this all up, Babara Kruger uses aspects that are postmodern, thus making her a post modern artist.

Post 11

Barbara Kruger was born on Januray 26, 1945 in Newark, New Jersey.  One reason why I chose this artist was, becasue this artist expresses many of her artwork by using juxaposition of text and image. This artists finds existing images of other sources and adds her on text to proclaim a meaning that usually involves identity, sexuality, and power. She is a conceptual artist, which means her artwork is an expression of ideas.  She is an artist of true thinking rather than pure beauty, thus in my opinion being a true postmodern artist. She will always continue to live by her word. "I work with pictures and words because they have the ability to determine who we are and who we aren't".

Post #10

This piece of artwork is a stereotype on Jewish people. One aspects of this artwork being stereotypical is that the skull on the figure’s hat depicts the calamity many people believed the Jews caused. Every major plague since the Roman Empire many people have blamed Jews for the cause of it. Another calamity the skulls depict is the suffering of the German people. Yes the Germans did persecute the Jews, but many Germans after WW1 blamed the Jews for the loss say in that the German army was "stabbed in the back" by the Jewish men and women that served within their army. After the war the Germans signed the Treaty of Versailles, which established reduction upon the land, as the majority of Germany now were ruled by foreigners, though the German people was stilled the majority of the population. They even accused the Jews as being greedy capitalists that led Germany to fall into the Great Depression. The strip of paper on the figure says "Gaza". This goes directly in link to the skulls as today many the region of Gaza has seen many conflict between the Israelis (Jews) and the Palestinians. The war within that region is religious and territory purposes. Many anti- Semitists has blames the Jews for such hostility within that region ever since they signed 1949 Armistice Agreement, because of the presence there. So, to sum this cartoon is to spread the anti- Semitism propaganda, by promoting stereotypes that the Jews are the main reason for cataclysmic events in the past century. I feel though these followers are plain belligerent, because of their racists thoughts. These events cannot be blamed solely on the Jews, as many people anti- Semitism are the main causes in these events as they gave the world a reason to hate Jews and a reason for Hitler to rise to power. Thus, do the evil acts he did.

Post 9

Andy Warhol

This artwork may be describing the cult of celebrity, which is a term that describes how the world through global proliferation views the fame of certain individual. In this case it usually for a short period of time and that nobody fame will last forever.  This text may portray a message that also describes how through many different mediums anyone can become famous, since the text use the word “everybody”. The artwork uses several visual Postmodern Visual Strategies. One is “text and image”, because the artist denotes the meaning with combination of the two. The artist uses another Postmodern Visual Strategies, which is called “representi’n”. The artist displays a picture in the background that portrays a man wearing sunglasses, who seems to be exerting a cool and arrogant attitude. Many will look at that image and think to themselves that this person is popular and well known. Thus expressing they he may be famous.