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Guerrilla Girls — Do Women Have to Be Naked To Get Into the Met. Museum?
Guerrilla Girls

Do Women Have to Be Naked To Get Into the Met. Museum?

Created in 1989, this bold screenprint features stark black text against a yellow background, presenting a striking statistical question about the glaring gender disparity within the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. The Guerrilla Girls, an anonymous feminist activist group, pair their provocative text with the iconic image of Ingres' reclining nude adorned with a gorilla mask, a signature symbol of the collective. The work serves as a sharp critique of the male-dominated art world, exposing the paradox that while less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art sections were women, 85% of the nudes were female.

Medium
screenprint on paper
Dimensions

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Guerrilla Girls, Do Women Have to Be Naked To Get Into the Met. Museum?

Created in 1989, this bold screenprint features stark black text against a yellow background, presenting a striking statistical question about the glaring gender disparity within the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. The Guerrilla Girls, an anonymous feminist activist group, pair their provocative text with the iconic image of Ingres' reclining nude adorned with a gorilla mask, a signature symbol of the collective. The work serves as a sharp critique of the male-dominated art world, exposing the paradox that while less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art sections were women, 85% of the nudes were female.

Medium
screenprint on paper
Dimensions
27.9 x 70.8 cm
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Bold, Institutional Critique, Feminist Art, American, Text-Based, Screenprint, Social Commentary, Activist, Provocative, Contemporary

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