Louise Bourgeois - forever art
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Je t'aime Maman - sculpted invasions progressing through spatialized time
Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911. She studied mathematics at the Sorbonne when she was 15, which lead her to discover cubism through geometry. She went on to study at the École du Louvre and the École des Beaux-Arts, which gave her a possibility to work as an assistant for Fernand Léger. In 1938 she moved to New York with her American husband, Robert Goldwater. This was an important decision, as she felt that she could not have continued to work as an artist if she had stayed in Paris. She lived and worked in New York until the end, during the spring of 2010.
Maman
by Tate Modern, London, December 2007
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- "It is difficult to find a framework vivid enough to incorporate Louise Bourgeois's sculpture. Attempts to bring a coolly evolutionary or art-historical order to her work or to see it in the context of one art group or another, have proved more or less irrelevant. ... Rarely has an abstract art been so directly and honestly informed by its maker's psyche.'' Lucy Lippard 'Louise Bourgeois. From the Inside Out' ArtForum, March 1975
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- An exhibition of works by the late French-American artist Louise Bourgeois opened last week, featuring some of her early iconic pieces that are being shown for the first time in Korea. Titled ?Personages,? the exhibition showcases 14 pieces created ...
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VickiSims
May 22, 2011 @ 11:32 pm | delete
- I only recently saw some of Louise Bourgeois sculptures for the first time and was delighted to find your lens to learn more about her. Added as a featured lens on my Seattle Olympic Sculpture Park lens.
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tandemonimom Feb 14, 2011 @ 6:17 pm | delete
- I had not heard of Louise Bourgeois. Very interesting!
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JaguarJulie Dec 29, 2009 @ 3:53 pm | delete
- Hear Hear! ' art is a guaranty of sanity '
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Jan 26, 2009 @ 6:30 pm | delete
- Welcome to The Totally Awesome Lenses Group.
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- Thank you David ;)
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