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Barbara Kruger

1945 - Today

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Barbara Kruger (born January 26, 1945) is an American conceptual artist and collagist associated with the Pictures Generation. She is most known for her collage style that consists of black-and-white photographs, overlaid with declarative captions, stated in white-on-red Futura Bold Oblique or Helvetica Ultra Condensed text. The phrases in her works often include pronouns such as "you", "your", "I", "we", and "they", addressing cultural constructions of power, identity, consumerism, and sexuality. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbara Kruger has received more than 1,376,649 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Barbara Kruger is the 1,071st most popular painter (down from 968th in 2019), the 3,433rd most popular biography from United States (down from 3,352nd in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Painter.

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  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Barbara Kruger ranks 1,071 out of 2,023. Before her are Joris Hoefnagel, Elin Danielson-Gambogi, Joachim Beuckelaer, Mykola Pymonenko, Nicolas-Jacques Conté, and Joaquín Torres-García. After her are Agnes Block, Hendrik Willem Mesdag, Wilhelm Leibl, Plautilla Nelli, Massimo Stanzione, and Romaine Brooks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Barbara Kruger ranks 222. Before her are Richard Long, John Leslie, Wilfried Van Moer, Edwin Catmull, Eric Woolfson, and Ferdi Tayfur. After her are Eric Roth, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Francesca Annis, Svetlana Gerasimenko, Joseph Delaney, and Thilo Sarrazin.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barbara Kruger ranks 3,433 out of 20,380. Before her are Kathryn Morris (1969), Kenneth Anger (1927), Leslie Easterbrook (1949), Thomas F. Wilson (1959), Evelyn McHale (1923), and Alvin E. Roth (1951). After her are Cicely Tyson (1924), Tyga (1989), Bill Nelson (1942), Katherine Heigl (1978), James J. Gibson (1904), and Chaka Khan (1953).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Barbara Kruger ranks 44. Before her are Lee Krasner (1908), Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823), Winslow Homer (1836), Franz Kline (1910), Benjamin West (1738), and Evel Knievel (1938). After her are Gilbert Stuart (1755), Richard Estes (1932), Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (1844), Robert Motherwell (1915), Sam Francis (1923), and Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856).

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