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Louise Bourgeois

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Louise Bourgeois (1911 - 2010) was active/lived in New York / France.  Louise Bourgeois is known for Grouped wood shape sculpture, installation.

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 A prolific artist, Louise Bourgeois created an immense body of work including prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture, the latter being the medium that brought her international attention.  In fact, she was one of the first installation artists.  She is also classified as an Abstract Expressionist because of her early activity in New York City.

Recognition came somewhat late in her life because she spent many years committed to domestic life of raising children and maintaining a home for them and her husband.

She was born in France three years before the beginning of World War I, and her early childhood was unsettled because she and her mother traveled about to follow her father in the military.  After the war, her parents worked in a tapestry factory, and much of the family conversation concerned hard work and technique and style. She attended school at the Lycee Fenelon in Paris and majored in philosophy and then attended the Sorbonne.&nb   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7721 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Louise Bourgeois available:    Gunther Forg,  Richard Tuttle,  Jo Baer,  Robert Gober,  Gerhard Richter,  Mark di Suvero,  Joel Elias Shapiro,  Josef Albers,  Francis Bacon,  Lucas Samaras,  Allan M D'Arcangelo,  Robert Smithson,  Jennifer Losch Bartlett,  Richard Serra,  Joan Mitchell,  Philip Guston,  Christopher Mallory Wilmarth,  Robert Peter Mangold,  Jack Pierson,  Deborah Kay Butterfield,  Brice Marden,  Agnes Bernice Martin,  Pat Steir,  Richard Long



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Louise Bourgeois


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Direct Carver, Hand Carving
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
  • Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
  • Sketch, Sketching
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Allegory, Metaphor, Parable
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Hand-Crafted Objects
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
Art Association
  • Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors
  • Society of Independent Artists-
Art Teacher
  • Amedee Ozenfant
  • Fernand Leger
Art School
  • Academie de la Grand Chaumiere, Paris, Student
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
  • Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, Student
  • Pratt Institute of Art, Brooklyn, Teacher
  • Sorbonne, Paris, Student
Awards/Recognition
  • National Medal of Arts
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
  • Karen and Robert Duncan Collection, Lincoln NE
  • Storm King Art Center Sculpture Installation, New York
  • U.S. Embassy, Art in Embassies Program, Foundation
  • UBS-Paine Webber Collection
Added Description
  • A.I.R. Gallery, New York Women's Co-op
  • Abstract Sculpture Specialty
  • Art Educator: Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
  • Printmaking Specialty
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Stable Gallery, New York City
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art

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