Guerrilla GirlsThe masked avengers of the artworld!

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Who are the Guerrilla Girls?

The Guerrilla Girls are feminist masked avengers in the tradition of anonymous do-gooders like Robin Hood, Wonder Woman and Batman. Over 55 women have been members over the years, some for months, some for decades. Their mask of choice to hide their identities is, of course, a gorilla head.What does guerrilla mean?

What is their Art Practice?

They use facts, humor and outrageous visuals to expose discrimination and corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture.They undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the downright unfair. What Frames could they easily fit into it?

What have they done?They’ve unveiled anti-film industry billboards in Hollywood just in time for the Oscars, dissed the Museum of Modern Art, New York, at its own Feminist Futures Symposium, and created large scale projects for the Venice Biennale; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Istanbul; Mexico City; London; Athens; Rotterdam; Bilbao; Sarajevo; Shanghai; Ireland; Krakow and Montreal.

What have they done?They are authors of stickers, billboards, posters, street projects, and several books including The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside

Companion to the History of Western Art

Bitches, Bimbos and Ballbreakers: The Guerrilla Girls' Guide to Female Stereotypes

The Guerrilla Girls' Art Museum Activity Book

The Guerrilla Girls' Hysterical Her story of Hysteria and How it Was Cured, from Ancient times Until Now.

Their work is passed around by their tireless supporters. They travel the world doing performances and workshops, encouraging thousands of people to invent their own crazy kind of activism, too.

SummaryHomework:

Describe the art practice of the Guerrilla Girls.Explain the Guerrilla Girl’s intentions and motivations behind their works, and what they seek to accomplish.What tools do they use to convey this message to their audience?Who is their audience?Make sure when responding you provide examples and write the question and your full responses in your book!

Activities…1) Write down the first ten artists that come to your

mind. Sort your list into categories(gender, ethnicity, age etc. ) What are the percentagesof each category? What does this suggestabout the way we think aboutart history and who is consideredvaluable for art?

Activities…1) Compare and

contrast Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’ La Grande Odalisque (1814) to Guerrilla Girls’ Do Women have to be Naked to get into the Metropolitan Museum? (1989). What message

does each image convey? How are these messages conveyed?