Resurgent Agitprop in Capital Letters (Dorothy Spears)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/arts/design/29kruger.html?ref=design
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This is about Barbara Kruger's and her current artworks in art galleries.
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Each artwork will represent some meaning anyway, just in different ways and styles. Some will use content, some will use composition, others will use colour. In Kruger's show, she loves white against a black background most.
The author use a strong negative sentence instead of a flat narration to open the story, It's hard...... not to see it as a critique of ...... Between the words, the author did give us an image of what her artwork is like in the museum, the style, the color, the content, right to the points of the exhibition. It is about consumption and in Kruger's view, the desire behind wanting and shopping is not limited to the power elite but we're all more and more in thrall to consumer culture. I can feel the charm of those simple words because we are becoming that kinds of people and do feel that way. And that's what makes an article a good one.
With the introduction of the exhibition, the author went deep into Kruger's life experience and career. The connection flows and it answers the questions why the author says that her work is global focus, why she will use this way to present it and the steps she changes in her career.
All her artwork is observation, not nostalgia, the author wrote and observed that the style of her work changes with the development of new technology and her archives are replaced with digital ones. I, especially, like the ending quote the author uses, We don’t need mirrors anymore. We look at ourselves on YouTube. We look at ourselves on Twitter. It’s ‘This is what I’m doing now'. The readers feel so familiar with these social networking tools those days and this observation is not about her artwork, it's all about what the trend is in the future.
Through the writing, we can see that how the author asks questions based on its angle and how the author presents it. We can not only feel the ideas the artist wants to deliver, but also think of the habits we are changing --- what the big impact that digital technology makes.
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