Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous group of artist who used Ads and Billboards style message boards to educate people about discrimination against women. In 1985 the New York based group used humor to empower and reclaim the feminist word as something uplifting because feminism is seen as a movement that radically advocates for women's rights. However, the group has been criticized for only speaking on behalf of a privileged group of women, and yet the most notable Ad from the Guerrilla Girls is the billboard "Do women have to be naked to get into Met. Museum?". Overlooking freeways and busy intersection, the Guerilla Girls Ad was designed to be plastered on billboards across New York and yet its message opens peoples eyes to the fact that not many Gallery artist are women, while pointing out how history has subjected women in paintings as nudes with the only intention to create sexual delight. In doing this Ad their message was and inescapable, so funding was rejected clamming the ad was to suggestive.
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