Describe the Guerrilla Girls’ Metropolitan Museum Poster and explain its purpose.

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. The Metropolitan Museum poster features a nude figure from a nineteenth-century painting who wears a gorilla mask that references the masks worn in public by the Guerrilla Girls.
2. The Guerrilla Girls juxtapose the nude female figure with text that includes statistical information to protest the inadequate representation of women in the art world.

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