Louise bourgeois exhibition 2024

Summary of Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois' life was a prolific demonstration of utilizing the creation of art as a tool for processing one's inner emotionality and psychological landscape. Working across a wide variety of mediums that included painting, drawing, and sculpture, her work dealt largely in dissecting, exploring, and reacting to the traumatic events from her own childhood that included her father's infidelity. Bourgeois' often brooding and sexually explicit subject matter and her presentation of the female viewpoint in regards to suppression, feminism, and sensuality alongside a distinct focus on three-dimensional form were rare for women artists at the time. Her single-minded devotion to expression, both as an artist and as a mentor to young artists, lent Bourgeois an international importance that remains vast, manifested most strongly through her influence on the development of conceptual and Installation Art.

Accomplishments

• Bourgeois wholly autobiographical artwork is renowned for its highly personal thematic content involving the unconscious, sexual desir
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  The Art of Louise Bourgeois

  Introduction

  With a career spanning eight decades from the 1930s until 2010, Louise Bourgeois is one of the great figures of modern and contemporary art. She is best known for her large-scale sculptures and installations that are inspired by her own memories and experiences.

  Using drawings, prints, sculpture and fabric works from the ARTIST ROOMS collection, this resource takes an in-depth look at her work through the themes and ideas of this extraordinary artist.

  Meet Louise Bourgeois

  Before exploring the themes behind her work, meet the artist. In this video, Louise Bourgeois lets us into her home and shares insights into her life and work.

  Themes

  I need to make things. The physical interaction with the medium has a curative effect. I need the physical acting out. I need to have these objects exist in relation to my body.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Childhood Trauma

  Whatever materials and processes Louise Bourgeois used to create her powerful artworks, the main force behind her art was to work through her troubled child

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  Louise Bourgeois

  French-American artist (1911–2010)

  Not to be confused with Louis Bourgeois (disambiguation) or Louyse Bourgeois.

  Louise Bourgeois
  Louise Bourgeois photographed by Oliver Mark, New York, 1996
  Born	Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (1911-12-25)25 December 1911 Paris, France
  Died	31 May 2010(2010-05-31) (aged 98) New York City, U.S.
  Nationality	French, American
  Education
  Known for
  Notable work	Spider, Cells, Maman, Cumul I, The Destruction of the Father
  Movement
  Spouse	Robert Goldwater ​ ​ (m. 1937; died 1973)​
  Children	3, including Jean-Louis Bourgeois
  Awards	Praemium Imperiale

  Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French:[lwizbuʁʒwa]^ⓘ; 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010)^[1] was a French-American artist. Although she is 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 domes