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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 1,325,211 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Barbara Kruger is the 969th most popular painter (down from 960th in 2019), the 3,360th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,321st in 2019) and the 37th most popular American Painter.

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  • 22

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  • 4.28

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  • 2.88

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Barbara Kruger ranks 969 out of 1,421. Before her are Rufino Tamayo, Willem Drost, Willem van de Velde the Elder, Varvara Stepanova, Abraham Mignon, and Elin Danielson-Gambogi. After her are Henri Le Sidaner, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Nikolai Yaroshenko, Lawrence Weiner, Ugolino di Nerio, and Nicolas-Jacques Conté.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Barbara Kruger ranks 197. Before her are Panagiotis Pikrammenos, Bob Peck, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Pirri, Steve Gadd, and Pat Riley. After her are Golden State Killer, Neophyte of Bulgaria, Joanna Cassidy, Marianne Sägebrecht, Pablo Forlán, and Bob Seger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barbara Kruger ranks 3,360 out of 18,182. Before her are Horace McCoy (1897), Clarence Clemons (1942), Jean Hagen (1923), Rosemary Clooney (1928), George Washington Carver (1864), and Sonny Landham (1941). After her are Monte Melkonian (1957), Jeanne Tripplehorn (1963), Kate Hudson (1979), Charles J. Guiteau (1841), Gregory Corso (1930), and Don Bluth (1937).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Barbara Kruger ranks 37. Before her are Cindy Sherman (1954), Lee Krasner (1908), Carl Andre (1935), Gutzon Borglum (1867), Chuck Close (1940), and Henry Hill (1943). After her are Lawrence Weiner (1942), Evel Knievel (1938), John Frederick Kensett (1816), Sam Francis (1923), Beatrice Wood (1893), and Ellsworth Kelly (1923).

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