Barbara Kruger

The large, bold artworks of Barbara Kruger incorporate images taken from the flood of mass media that is so predominantly a part of contemporary society. Pictures and words derived from television, film, newspapers and magazines comprise the media's powerful ability to communicate. By incorporating these into her art works, Kruger creates her own sexual, social and political messages, and effectively challenges the stereotypical ways the mass media influences society's notions about gender roles, social relationships and political issues.

Untitled (Your Body is a Battleground) demonstrates Kruger's interest in addressing and interpreting heated political issues of the moment. Using as a central image a silk-screened frontal photograph of a model's face, she gives the image additional meaning by dividing the large canvas it occupies into sections: right and left the image reverses from positive to negative, and from top to bottom the face is divided into thirds emblazoned with the slogan "Your body is a battleground." Kruger critiques the objectified standard of symmetry applied in modern times to feminine beauty, and perpetuate at fever pitch by media and advertising.

I'm quite a fan of her work..