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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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 […]
The 50 artists in this formidable show have all used textiles to tell powerful stories of resistance to social, political and ecological ills
In pictures: Untouched since the day she died, Louise Bourgeois' home shows how the artist lived and worked
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,
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…
“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.
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Leaves, tendrils and mysterious organic forms abound in these never-before-seen etchings about to go on show at Tate Modern's new exhibition, Louise Bourgeois: Works on Paper
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French-American artist Louise Bourgeois’ instincts were to push the boundaries. Be it towering arachnids, distorted penises, childbirth, or the exaggerated female form, the subversive icon used sculpture and installation art along with paintings and printmaking to explore themes like sexuality, the body, motherhood, domesticity, family, death, and the subconscious. Her work was bold in both hues and subject and called for the viewers’ attention, while the woman herself was much more of a humble
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.
Leaves, tendrils and mysterious organic forms abound in these never-before-seen etchings about to go on show at Tate Modern's new exhibition, Louise Bourgeois: Works on Paper
I am going to be a big advocate of this Bourgeois’s exhibition, and generally – her art. What I knew about this artist, before going to Paris, was shamefully little. I admired her insig…
Disegni inediti di Louise Bourgeois a Napoli. Allo Studio Trisorio e al Museo di Capodimonte
Louise Bourgeois, YOU TOUCHED ME!, 2007
Louise Bourgeois - Seamstress/Mistress/Distress/Stress, 1995 - Cotton, plastique, brodé, cousu
Louise Bourgeois comes from a family of ancient tapestry restorers. After a year in mathematics at the Sorbonne, she had a change of heart and enrolled in the École des beaux-arts de Paris in 1933. Throughout the 1930s, she spent her time in Parisian academies...
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Leaves, tendrils and mysterious organic forms abound in these never-before-seen etchings about to go on show at Tate Modern's new exhibition, Louise Bourgeois: Works on Paper
