louise bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois’s remarkable career spans seven decades. [1]
At 92, Louise Bourgeois is still producing vibrant, large-scale work that continues themes explored throughout her career. [2]
In 1938 she moved with her American husband, Robert Goldwater, to New York City to continue her studies at the Art Students League of New York, feeling that she would not have stayed an artist had she continued to live in Paris. [3]
Her parents ran a workshop in Paris restoring tapestries, for which Bourgeois filled in the designs where they had become worn. [4]
Although Bourgeois refers to autobiographical sources, her sculptures communicate universal concerns and emotions. [1]
Born in France in 1911 and residing in New York since 1938, Louise Bourgeois is one of the major artists of the second half of the 20th and early 21st Centuries. [5]
The ongoing success of Bourgeois’ sculptures lies in their ability to transcend the personal subjectivity of the maker into collective, objective human experience. [...] And success in the art world is not so easily opted out of if one wants to continue producing work for public consumption. [2]
Vine described Bourgeois as one of the “greatest ever artists” and said that “few female artists have been recognised as truly important”. [3]
A discussion between the sculptor Alain Kirili and Bourgeois about the artist’s early years and the symbolic nature of her work (”The Passion for Sculpture”) was published in Arts Magazine (March 1989) and is particularly enlightening. [...] New York artist Louise Bourgeois (born 1911) was one of the most celebrated sculptors in the period following World War II. [4]
Bourgeois translates memory and feeling into a universal visceral visual language by using materials in a way that heightens both their expressive value and that of the form they describe. [2]
She enrolled at the Art Students League and fostered friendships with members of the American Abstract Artists group who were advocates of Cubism, Biomorphic Abstraction, and Surrealism in America. [4]
Her most famous works are possibly the spider structures, titled Maman, from the last dozen years. [3]
Member of the American Abstract Artists group. [6]
Sources:
[1] Louise Bourgeois | LANDMARKS
[2] Artzar - Louise Bourgeois
[3] Louise Bourgeois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[4] Louise Bourgeois: Biography from Answers.com
[5] Louise Bourgeois
[6] Louise Bourgeois - Artcyclopedia