The Guerrilla Girls Project Essay
The Guerilla Girls Sunday, February 26th, 2017 9:06am Victor Moya, Kristie Perez, and Monica Sarmiento The Guerilla Girls are an inspiring, motivating, and strong group of collective artists that use their artistic skills in order to convey their rage for gender inequality, racism, and social injustice. Established in 1985, they began their movement one night by placing posters all throughout Soho in downtown Manhattan which were signed “the conscience of the art world”. The posters were set to depict the lack of women’s art work displayed in museums although, the majority of paintings consist of nude women. The anonymous group of women began to attract a significant amount of followers who requested interviews and to know their identities. Using gorilla masks to hide their identity, the women agreed to interviews and being photographed but chose to keep their identities hidden in order to protect...