The Guerrilla Girls is a group of anonymous, female artists who produce work that highlights the lack of female artists represented in major museums and galleries. In their Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into The Met. Museum? (1989), the title is printed above the statement "Less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art Sections are women, but 85% of the nudes are female." To the left of the text is a reproduction of Jean Auguste Dominigue Ingres's Grande Odalisque, in which a nude woman is reclining on a bed. An angry gorilla head is printed over the subject's face. The use of appropriation in this piece most closely parallels which other artwork?

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The Guerrilla Girls is a group of anonymous, female artists who produce work that highlights the lack of female artists represented in major museums and galleries. In their Do Women Have To Be Naked To Get Into The Met. Museum? (1989), the title is printed above the statement "Less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art Sections are women, but 85% of the nudes are female." To the left of the text is a reproduction of Jean Auguste Dominigue Ingres's Grande Odalisque, in which a nude woman is reclining on a bed. An angry gorilla head is printed over the subject's face. The use of appropriation in this piece most closely parallels which other artwork?

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Like the Guerrilla Girls' work, Gran Fury's Read My Lips (girls) also uses appropriation to convey a political message. In this case, the work takes a campaign slogan from George H.W. Bush's 1988 presidential campaign ("Read my lips: no new taxes") and repurposes it with the words "girls, AIDS, crisis" to draw attention to the lack of action being taken to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic affecting women and marginalized communities. Both works use visual and textual elements to critique societal structures and advocate for change.

The Guerrilla Girls Is a Group of Anonymous, Female Artists