Text based art

From The Broad Collection: Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your body is a battleground), 1989, photographic silkscreen on vinyl, The Broad Art Foundation. Barbara Kruger addresses media and politics in their native tongue: tabloid, sensational, authoritative, and direct. Kruger’s words and images merge the commercial and art worlds; their critical resonance eviscerates cultural hierarchies — everyone and everything is for sale. The year 1989 was marked by numerous demonstrations protesting a new…

We look at 8 masters of text art, who use the written word to enhance their visual concepts, from Barbara Kruger to Bruce Nauman.

contemporary & text-based art on Instagram: “your #favourite #textbased #artists (with the number of mentions in brackets) according to my little survey two days ago: 1. jenny holzer…”

The work of Jasmine Kay Uy for her University of Texas at Austin Department of Art and Art History Digital Foundations class with Bethany Johnson titled "Art is Pointless...". The prompt was to create a work that investigated site-specificity, public setting, and text-based art using Illustrator and the vinyl cutter.

We’ve been pouring over @toonjoosen’s collage creations! 🤍 #youcreativemedia #collagedesign #collagemaker #typography #layoutdesign #craft

In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London

the work's text was originally written for his girlfriend, and then pulled from his series 'memories of a girl I never knew' series on instagram before making it to the shop.

The artist’s paintings at Peter Freeman, Inc. move language from mere representation to lived experience.

Despina Stokou

After another weekend of sifting my way through various piles of art books; philosophers etc, the words we write continues to interest me and how they can be used not just as a means to explain or …