Biography on louise bourgeois and her artist

Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art , Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the unconscious. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the abstract expressionists and her work has a lot in common with Surrealism and feminist art , she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement.

Bourgeois was born on 25 December in Paris, France. A few years after her birth, her family moved out of Paris and set up a workshop for tapestry restoration below their apartment in Choisy-le-Roi , for which Bourgeois filled in the designs where they had become worn.

Louise bourgeois techniques

In , Bourgeois entered the Sorbonne to study mathematics and geometry , subjects that she valued for their stability, [ 6 ] [ 5 ] saying "I got peace of mind, only through the study of rules nobody could change. Her mother died in , while Bourgeois was studying mathematics. Her mother's death inspired her to abandon mathematics and to begin studying art.

She continued to study art by joining classes where translators were needed for English-speaking students, especially because translators were not charged tuition.

Louise bourgeois death

Bourgeois graduated from the Sorbonne in They had three sons; one was adopted. The marriage lasted until Goldwater's death in Bourgeois settled in New York City with her husband in She continued her education at the Art Students League of New York , studying painting under Vaclav Vytlacil , and also producing sculptures and prints.

There is no room for anxiety Bourgeois incorporated those autobiographical references to her sculpture Quarantania I , on display in the Cullen Sculpture Garden at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. For Bourgeois, the early s represented the difficulties of a transition to a new country and the struggle to enter the exhibition world of New York City.