Barbara Kruger – Untitled (Your body is a battleground), 1989 Published on: Tuesday January 8, 2019Last updated September 15, 2019 IntroductionHow Kruger influenced cultureWhat font is used in Barbara Kruger’s art?What makes her style unique?What makes her work so powerfulAbout … Continue reading →

Photographic collage artist Barbara Kruger contrasts mass media photographs with biting slogans. Her art probes mass media's ways of controlling its readers' self-identity, desire, and highlights its powerful grip on public opinion. In their trade...

Fonts in use in artwork from “Barbara Kruger”

Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist and collagist. Most of her work consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions, stated in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed text.

Supreme’s appropriation of Kruger’s style and techniques for its logo is inarguable, which Jebbia all but admitted to during a 2013 lawsuit against Leah McSweeney’s women’s streetwear brand Married to the Mob for its “Supreme Bitch” t-shirt (which Jebbia originally consented to), so the discussion should focus less on if Supreme has ...

American collage artist Barbara Kruger is internationally famous for superimposing messages in Futura Bold Oblique font on pre-existing photographs. Her text questions consumerism, individual autonomy and feminism and the images she uses are often culled from mainstream media ads.

Barbara Kruger is best known for her silkscreen prints where she placed a direct and concise caption across the surface of a found photograph. Her prints from the 1980s cleverly encapsulated the era of "Reaganomics" with tongue-in-cheek satire; especially in a work like ...

Barbara Kruger’s art hits you like a punch to the jaw. You’ve seen her work, even if you’ve never been to one of her shows – photography overlaid with coloured boxes filled with bold white Futura Oblique, or caps locked sans serif text that bears down at you from gallery walls and the sides and roofs of buildings. It’s not hard to miss, and that’s why it’s brilliant: it’s both ...

What? you don't want to navigate away from my wonderful blog for even a minute. Who can blame you? OK, so here's the oversimplified reductionist bio recap: Barbara Kruger uses black-and-white found photos coupled with her own pithy text (usually in white Futura Bold font on red background) to make strong statements about power, politics, gender ...

What do the Nazi Party, NASA, Wes Anderson, Forever 21, Louis Vuitton, Ed Ruscha, and Barbara Kruger have in common? All of them have favored the same font.