Untitled (I Shop Therefore I Am, By Barbara Kruger

Every artist faces a moment in their life where they need to escape, run away and leave everything behind. It is in this moment where they find their true self through their art; also known as a personal style. The true meaning of art doesn’t conform to one perspective; it morphs from everyone’s opinions into a reality. The French Symbolist painter, Odilon Redon once said, “While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality… true art lies in a reality that is felt” This quote expresses the abstract line between fantasy and actuality. Everyone can look at a painting and detail what it depicts, but no one can retrieve the same emotion from an artwork that the artist puts into it. The feminist artist Barbara Kruger has release many artworks to the public expressing her true self and …show more content…
“Untitled (I shop therefore I am)”, focuses on the consumer culture section of the world. For many people today shopping is no longer a boring task in which they have to do to buy their necessities but a leisure task. Shopping has consumed the lifestyle of many people and has taken away the social aspect to living and is not about buying their way out of everything. It could even be voiced that shopping is stopping us from finding our true selves and happiness. However, in saying this shopping can be fun and a way to left loose, but there is a balance. “Untitled (I shop therefore I am)”, is expressing that shopping is no longer an act but who we are. We choose what we buy and what we invest in, but the line between more and enough had blurred just as the line between imaginary and reality has. Kruger felt as if we had a choice in this matter and that it was only our decisions that make our shopping symbolize