Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (1911–2010) was a French-American artist. Best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the subconscious. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the Abstract Expressionists and her work has much in common with Surrealism and Feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement. Louise Bourgeois’s work is often autobiographical, while addressing universal experiences such as birth, death, love, loss and fear. The exhibition at Tate Modern brings together a selection of Bourgeois’s late works, alongside a small number of earlier pieces from her remarkable seven-decade career. She was born in Paris in 1911. Her parents ran a business restoring antique tapestries, which sparked her life-long interest in textiles. Though she initially studied mathematics and geometry at the Sorbonne, she soon changed direction and trained as an artist. In 1938 she moved to New York City, where she remained until her death in 2010. Bourgeois returned again and again to a number of themes, though the materials she used to express them vary greatly. Her sculpture, drawing and writing are characterized by an unflinching emotional honesty, as she continually retold and reworked the memories and stories that shaped her life. [via Tate and Wikipedia]
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Best known for her giant spider sculptures, the artist explored patriarchy, motherhood and what it meant for women to be subjects rather than objects of art. A major exhibition at Bilbao’s Guggenheim reveals the power of her Cells series
Louise Bourgeois's works are surrounded by a large and ever-growing body of literature, generated both by the artist herself and by a throng of critics seeking to engage with the huge variety of her artistic output and with her personality and personal history. The textuality of these statements,
Louise Bourgeois was one of greatest figures in modern and contemporary art, world renowned for the incredible scope and ambition of her sculptural work. Much has been written about the uneasy psychological tension of her art, which explores memories and traumas from her troubled past, casting light into the darkest recesses of her mind. But...
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“Maman” makes use of the spider motif, which Bourgeois had used in a 1947 drawing and which helps us to understand the autobiographical nature of the work.
Louise Bourgeois created the first of her darkly compelling spider sculptures in the mid-1990s, when she was in her eighties. The artist saw spiders as both fierce and fragile, capable of being protectors as well as predators. For Bourgeois, the spider embodied an intricate and sometimes contradictory mix of psychological and biographical allusions. Partly a […]
A couple of weeks ago Kim and I went to see Max Ernst at MoMA and while we were at it we also went to see the Louise Bourgeois exhibition. Louise Bourgeois was born in 1911 in France and died in 2010…
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“I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you it was wonderful.” Throughout her 70 year career Louise Bourgeois made art as a catharsis, expressing her most intimate fears and anxieties. Though deeply personal, her frank, open language has a universal quality, explaining why she has become such a world renowned artist...
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Louise Bourgeois, a travelling retrospective marking the artist's nearly 100 years of living and more than seven decades of art-making, is an ambitious project. Opening in October 2007 at Tate Modern in London, the exhibit appeared at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and now is installed in expanded form at the Guggenheim in New York. The museum's singular Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda, with its spiralling ramps, emphasises Bourgeois's prevailing modes of operation: recalling, recreating, reworking, revisiting and re-examining.
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Wye provides an expert overview not only of Bourgeois's prints and artist’s books, but her work as a whole.
Alex Van Gelder’s portraits of Louise Bourgeois in the final years of her life show a theatrical spirit defying a fading body.
Jean-François Jaussaud spent a decade photographing the formidable artist. He remembers her fury, her fragility – and her police-style interrogations
With her posthumous exhibition opening at the MoMA this month, we revisit a lively interview between the artist and critic Paulo Herkenhoff.
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Alex Van Gelder’s portraits of Louise Bourgeois in the final years of her life show a theatrical spirit defying a fading body.
