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Since the Guerrilla Girls, many more female artists has been showing in the art galleries. Majority of the female art in the exhibit portrayed nudity in some way and the public felt as if it was unfair. Less than 5% of arts showed were women but of the ones that are women, they were nudity art. One of the Guerrilla Girls’ most famous poster is “Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?”, which shows a naked girl with a gorilla mask on. They stated that other larger companies offered to be a part of their marketing but they declined since they didn’t want to make profit from their audience, only to inspire the audience. In fact, they included that the mask allowed them to express their opinion more freely since the audience don't

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