Louise Bourgeois
French-American Sculptor, 1911-2010
Louise Bourgeois’ art is influenced by her own experiences, particularly with her childhood, abandonment/infidelity, female sexuality, and family. You can see the artists’s personal history reflected in her work: the complex double standard between men and women (as her father was openly unfaithful), motherhood as a complicated position (her spiders are titled “maman,” and represent her own mother figure as both predatorial and protective), friendship (esp. through the use of hands as a subject), etc., etc.
Louise Bourgeois, Maman (1999), Tate Modern, London
Bourgeois, 10 am is When You Come to Me (2006), Tate
Bourgeois, 10 am is When You Come to Me (2006) - detail (no. 6)
Bourgeois, Arch of Hysteria (1993), MoMA, New York
Bourgeois, Lady in waiting (2003), Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Bourgeois, Maman, in l’Eglise Louise Bourgeois, Bonnieux, France
Bourgeois, Destruction of the Father (1974)
Bourgeois, Cell XXVI (2003), Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Bourgeois, crucifix from the Eglise Louise Bourgeois, Bonnieux, France
Bourgeois, Les Fleurs (2009)
Bourgeois, fountain and benches, Agnes R Katz Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA
Bourgeois, Maman, The Louisiana Collection, Humlebæk, Denmark
Bourgeois, I have been to hell and back (2007)
Robert Mapplethorpe portrait of Bourgeois
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Intro to Bourgeois, by the Tate
So beautiful and thought-provoking! Thank you so much for sharing.
I didn’t know the background of that downtown fountain thanks