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May 31, 2010 · Soft Landscape II. In 1967, Bourgeois began her Landscape series. Soft Landscape II was made by pouring caramel-colored resin over biomorphic forms that resembled a three-dimensional still life landscape. With this work, Bourgeois shifted from working with wood in stiff, upright forms to experimenting with other materials such as plaster ...
- French-American
- December 25, 1911
- Paris, France
- May 31, 2010
She is best known for her large-scale sculptures and installations that are inspired by her own memories and experiences. Using drawings, prints, sculpture and fabric works from the ARTIST ROOMS collection, this resource takes an in-depth look at her work through the themes and ideas of this extraordinary artist.
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View all 204 artworks. Louise Bourgeois lived in the XX – XXI cent., a remarkable figure of French-American Confessional Art. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
- French, American
- December 25, 1911
- Paris, France
- May 31, 2010
- Blind Leading the Blind | Louise Bourgeois. This is an early sculpture in her career dating from 1947- 49. Louis Bourgeois constructed them using wooden planks, attached to a flat beam.
- Femme Maison. The etymology of the word Femme Maison (1946-47) means ‘housewife’ or ‘woman house’. They are a series of paintings that deal with the questioning of female identity.
- Destruction of the Father. Destruction of the Father is a 1974 inside-out sculpture, which is a psychological depiction of the power of a father’s dominance over his offspring.
- Fragile Goddess. Amongst all the classical nudes, this sculpture upturns all the ancient ideologies of western sculptures, depicting an inside-out human figure with complete transparency.
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French: [lwiz buʁʒwa] ; 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker.
Praemium Imperiale. Louise Joséphine Bourgeois ( French: [lwiz buʁʒwa] ⓘ; 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) [1] was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker.
The malleable, sensual forms of Three Horizontals depict the female body as evolutionary, with the potential to adapt and withstand trauma. A powerful example of Bourgeois’s fabric sculptures, the carapace of each form is cocooned in fleshy pink fabric that is stuffed and stitched, sometimes bursting at the seams.