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Born 1951 Saint Amant, Louisiana. Known for: Assemblage-boxes, portrait.
Douglas Bourgeois was born in Saint Amant, Louisiana, and the intense character of Southern landscape and culture is a lingering component in his work. Bourgeois finds inspiration and influence from... Read full biography
Douglas Bourgeois was born in Saint Amant, Louisiana, and the intense character of Southern landscape and culture is a lingering component in his work. Bourgeois finds inspiration and influence from biographical fantasies, tributes to pop icons, discarded paper media, religious iconography and the... Read full biography
Douglas Bourgeois was born in Saint Amant, Louisiana, and the intense character of Southern landscape and culture is a lingering component in his work. Bourgeois finds inspiration and influence from biographical fantasies, tributes to pop icons, discarded paper media, religious iconography and the mysterious life of objects. As a child, he attended Catholic school and had once intended to become a priest, but rock and roll music gained popularity around the same time, influencing him to alter... Read full biography
Douglas Bourgeois was born in Saint Amant, Louisiana, and the intense character of Southern landscape and culture is a lingering component in his work. Bourgeois finds inspiration and influence from biographical fantasies, tributes to pop icons, discarded paper media, religious iconography and the mysterious life of objects. As a child, he attended Catholic school and had once intended to become a priest, but rock and roll music gained popularity around the same time, influencing him to alter his career choice. Themes of music and religion play out equally in his work. Bourgeois' early style was influenced by the visionary outsider artists and the raw expressive extravagance of Chicago Imagism. Although he is reluctant to define his art,... Read full biography
Douglas Bourgeois was born in Saint Amant, Louisiana, and the intense character of Southern landscape and culture is a lingering component in his work. Bourgeois finds inspiration and influence from biographical fantasies, tributes to pop icons, discarded paper media, religious iconography and the mysterious life of objects. As a child, he attended Catholic school and had once intended to become a priest, but rock and roll music gained popularity around the same time, influencing him to alter his career choice. Themes of music and religion play out equally in his work. Bourgeois' early style was influenced by the visionary outsider artists and the raw expressive extravagance of Chicago Imagism. Although he is reluctant to define his art, in 1990, a New Orleans art critic, D. Eric Bokhardt dubbed Bourgeois along with a group of fe... Read full biography
Douglas Bourgeois - Artist Info
About Douglas Bourgeois: Keywords
Keywords (13)
Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
Art Subject
- •Black, African Culture, Figure, Genre, Civil Rights
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Portraits, Portraiture
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950