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 …

With a career spanning eight decades from the 1930s until 2010, Louise Bourgeois is one of the great figures of modern and contemporary art. She is best known for her large-scale sculptures and …

“I like to be a glass house. There is no mask in my work.” Born in Paris in 1911, Louise Bourgeois was raised by parents who ran a tapestry restoration business. A gifted student, she also helped out in …

May 31, 2010 · Bourgeois transformed her experiences into a highly personal visual language through the use of mythological and archetypal imagery, adopting objects such as spirals, spiders, cages, …

Jun 15, 2022 · Louise Bourgeois, born in 1911 in Paris, France, and passed away in 2010 in New York City, the United States of America, is a truly iconic artist, best known for her often monumental …

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French: [lwiz buʁʒwa] ( listen); 25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, …

Louise Bourgeois was a French-born sculptor known for her monumental abstract and often biomorphic works that deal with the relationships of men and women. Born to a family of tapestry weavers, …

Apr 4, 2025 · French-American artist Louise Bourgeois was a prolific creative. In her eight-decades-long career spanning the 1930s to the 2010s, she created large-scale sculptures for which she’s still …

Not until the 1950s did she concentrate on sculpture. Bourgeois’s art explores opposite qualities: light/dark, rough/smooth, male/female. It alludes to strong emotions, often tied to sexuality. …

5 days ago · Bourgeois’s spiders are understood as representations of maternity, seen as both predators and protectors. Bourgeois’s work, while deeply autobiographical, is universal in its focus on …