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Essays page for Louise Bourgeois ((1911 - 2010)), known for Grouped wood shape sculpture, installation. Showing 4 essays and articles.
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1911 Paris, France - 2010 New York City. Known for: Grouped wood shape sculpture, installation.
A prolific artist, Louise Bourgeois created an immense body of work including prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture, the latter being the medium that brought her international attention. In fact,... Read full biography
A prolific artist, Louise Bourgeois created an immense body of work including prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture, the latter being the medium that brought her international attention. In fact, she was one of the first installation artists. She is also classified as an Abstract Expressionist... Read full biography
A prolific artist, Louise Bourgeois created an immense body of work including prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture, the latter being the medium that brought her international attention. In fact, she was one of the first installation artists. She is also classified as an Abstract Expressionist because of her early activity in New York City. Recognition came somewhat late in her life because she spent many years committed to domestic life of raising children and maintaining a home for them... Read full biography
A prolific artist, Louise Bourgeois created an immense body of work including prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture, the latter being the medium that brought her international attention. In fact, she was one of the first installation artists. She is also classified as an Abstract Expressionist because of her early activity in New York City. Recognition came somewhat late in her life because she spent many years committed to domestic life of raising children and maintaining a home for them and her husband. She was born in France three years before the beginning of World War I, and her early childhood was unsettled because she and her mother traveled about to follow her father in the military. After the war, her parents worked in a... Read full biography
A prolific artist, Louise Bourgeois created an immense body of work including prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture, the latter being the medium that brought her international attention. In fact, she was one of the first installation artists. She is also classified as an Abstract Expressionist because of her early activity in New York City. Recognition came somewhat late in her life because she spent many years committed to domestic life of raising children and maintaining a home for them and her husband. She was born in France three years before the beginning of World War I, and her early childhood was unsettled because she and her mother traveled about to follow her father in the military. After the war, her parents worked in a tapestry factory, and much of the family conversation concerned hard work and technique and style. She attended... Read full biography