Louise Bourgeois
French-American artist (1911–2010) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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. 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.[2] These themes connect to events from her childhood which she considered to be a therapeutic process. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the abstract expressionists and her work has much in common with Surrealism and feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement.
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Born | Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (1911-12-25)25 December 1911 Paris, France |
Died | 31 May 2010(2010-05-31) (aged 98) New York City, U.S. |
Nationality | French, American |
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Notable work | Spider, Cells, Maman, Cumul I, The Destruction of the Father |
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Awards | Praemium Imperiale |