Monday, September 4, 2017

Artist of the day, September 4: Louise Bourgeois, American-French sculptor, painter.

Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was a preeminent American-French artist of the 20th century. She studied mathematics at the Sorbonne before turning to studio arts. Her work, which spanned most of the twentieth century, was heavily influenced by traumatic psychological events from her childhood, particularly her father's infidelity. Bourgeois's often brooding and sexually explicit subject matter and her focus on three-dimensional form were rare for women artists at the time. Beginning in the 1970s, she hosted Sunday salons in her Chelsea apartment, where students and young artists would take their work to be critiqued by Bourgeois, who could be ruthless and referred to the gatherings, with characteristically dry humor, as "Sunday, bloody Sunday". Nevertheless, this accessibility and willingness to advise younger artists was exceptional for an established artist of such standing. Her influence on other artists since the 1970s looms large, but is manifested most strongly in feminist-inspired body art and in the development of installation art.

Bourgeois's artwork is renowned for its highly personal thematic content involving the unconscious, sexual desire, and the body. These themes draw on events in her childhood for which she considered making art a therapeutic or cathartic process.

Bourgeois transformed her experiences into a highly personal visual language through the use of mythological and archetypal imagery, adopting objects such as spirals, spiders, cages, medical tools, and sewn appendages to symbolize the feminine psyche, beauty, and psychological pain.

Through the use of abstract form and a wide variety of media, Bourgeois dealt with notions of universal balance, playfully juxtaposing materials conventionally considered male or female. She would, for example, use rough or hard materials most strongly associated with masculinity to sculpt soft biomorphic forms suggestive of femininity.



Mrs Louise Bourgeois

2004, Suspension


1947, Paddle Woman


1947-49, Pilar


1947–48, (made 1998–99) Shackle Necklace


1950, structures of existence the cells


1951-52, Spiral woman


1952, Untitled.    1949, Spring.    1950, Mortise


1963, (cast in 1990) Rondeau for L


1970, Rabbit



1991, Reparation


1991-97, Cells series


1993, Arch of Hysteria


1994, Untitled


1995,  Femme maison


1995, In and Out


1995, Untitled


1996 The Welcoming Hands


1996, Fallen woman


1996, Spider


1996, Spider


1997, Pink days and blue days


1997, Spider

1997, Spider


1997, Spider


1998, Ste. Sébastienne


1998, Topiary the art of improving Nature, Amputee with Crutch


1999, Maman


1999, Maman


1999, Maman


1999, Maman


1999, Maman


1999, Maman


1999, The Angry Cat


2001, Untitled (Couples)


2002, knife figure


2002, Untitled


2002, Untitled


2003, Spider


2003, The couple


2004, Tete V


2005, Femme


2005, Together


2006, The ladders


Cinq


  The family




Art is alive "Do Not Abandon Me"



 Precious liquids spider-passage dangereux


Galerias


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