Louise Bourgeois

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Louise Bourgeois

• 1911- today

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Biography

• Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris on December
  25th, 1911. She is an artist and sculpture and
  studied art at Ecole du Louvre, Académie des
  Beaux-Arts, Académie Julian, and Atelier Fernand
  Léger. She emigrated to the United states in 1938
  and studied at the Art Students League. Louise
  Bourgeois married an American man. She is seen as
  a prominent 20th century sculptor. She has a
  distinct, original style that is hard to
  reproduce.

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Style/medium

• Her work is abstract and symbolic. She is very
  good at conveying anger, betrayal and jealousy in
  her work. It is often times sexually charged.
  Some mediums she has worked with include rubber,
  wood, stone, metal, and fabric. Her most famous
  work is Maman, which is a spider sculpture.

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Timeline
December 25th, 1911 Louise is born
1921-1927 attended Lycée Fénelon
1938 moved to New York City
1950 Peridot Gallery, New York Louise
Bourgeois Sculptures show
1955 Louise becomes an American citizen
1973 Received Artist Grant, National Endowment
for the Arts
"Twosome," 1991
1990-93 Cell (Glass Spheres and Hands),
1999 Maman
2002 Received Wolf Foundation Prize in The Arts
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Quotes

• Once I was beset by anxiety but I pushed the fear
  away by studying the sky, determining when the
  moon would come out and where the sun would
  appear in the morning.
• Art is manipulation without intervention.
• Art is a guarantee of sanity. That is the most
  important thing I have said.
• I am not what I am, I am what I do with my
  hands
• The grid is very peaceful. Nothing
• can go wrong. Everything is
• complete.

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Quotes

• Everywhere in the modern world there is neglect,
  the need to be recognized, which is not
  satisfied. Art is a way of recognizing oneself,
  which is why it will always be modern.

• Sometimes it is necessary to make a
• confrontation and I like that.

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Various Sculptures
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Maman
Bourgeois uses space to emphasizethe size and
form of the spider. The spiders body sags down
and connectsall eight legs together. Her
sculpturealso uses lines for example, all the
legs on the spider are curved. The texture of
the sculpture appears to be smooth with carvings
in the legs and body. The color of the spideris
a bronze-metallic color. The shape of the
sculpture is a spider shape. The planesvary
because the legs go in differentdirections. The
value changes dependingon where the sun hits the
spider, changing the shadows.
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The Welcoming Hands
This sculpture has 4 differenthands, which is
an example of repetition. There is not much
contrast because the entire sculpture is made
out of bronze.The harmony in this sculptor
isgood because the shapes are allsimilar and
one singular material.The balance is good
becausethe hands even out each other.There is
not much variety, but that helps strengthen the
sculpture. The hands are proportioned nicely The
sculpute has good unity because the hands
enclasp each other. The way the hands are shaped
show the movement ofthe hands reaching out for
each other.
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Purpose

• Bourgeoiss sculptures all havepurposes. The
  ones that involvehuman beings are suppose to
  celebrate the human beings and are sexually
  charged. Often times, she expresses different
  emotions in her sculptures, like anger, betrayal,
  and jealousy.

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Work Cited

• http//www.pbs.org/art21/artists/bourgeois/card1.h
  tml
• http//www.pbs.org/art21/artists/bourgeois/card2.h
  tml
• http//members.aol.com/mindwebart2/page150.htm
• http//www.emailart.com.ar/Bourgeois/Louise_Bourge
  ois_emailart_call.jpg
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Bourgeois
• http//www.ndoylefineart.com/bourgeois.html
• http//www.painterskeys.com/auth_search.asp?nameL
  ouise20Bourgeois
• http//www.cheimread.com/bourgeoisbio.htm
• http//www.nytimes.com/2006/05/05/arts/design/05bo
  ur.html?ex1165035600enf02e0c075ad96110ei5070
  http//www.insecula.com/us/oeuvre/O0019149.html