Bio Louise Bourgeois, HAD 1905

"This is not mere 'parole antique.' I work with the present. Eternal, universal and ever-present emotions. Especially the emotions of violence, jealousy and fear." Louise Bourgeois

A brief summary of Louise Bourgeois life.

"1911 Born in Paris, France

1932 - 1935 Studies at the Sorbonne, Paris, France

1936 - 1937 Studies at the École du Louvre, Paris, France

1936 - 1938 Studies at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

1937 - 1938 Pupil of Fernand Léger

1938 Emigrates to the USA, New York

1980 Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts from Women’s Caucus for Art

1981 Elected Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, MA

1983 Elected Member of American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, NY

1983 Named Officier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, by Jack Lang, French Minister of Culture

1987 Gold Medal of Honor for Excellence in Art, National Arts Club, New York

1987 Named Fellow for Life at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1989 “Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement”, College Art Association

1989 “Neptune Award for the Arts”, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, NY

1991 Lifetime Achievement Award, International Sculpture Center, Washington D.C. (first recipient)

1991 Awarded the Grand Prix National de Sculpture by the French Ministry of Culture

1993 Mayor’s Awards for Art & Culture, New York City

1995 The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo and The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Kanagawa-ken, Japan, 1995 Biennial Award and Purchase prize for ARCH OF HYSTERIA

1997 National Medal of Arts presented by President Clinton at the White House

1998 Academician of the National Academy, New York, Sculpture Class

1999 Awarded the Golden Lion, for a living master of contemporary art, by La Biennale di Venezia

1999 Praemium Imperiale Award in the sculpture category from the Japan Art Association

2003 2002/3 Wolf Prize in the Arts (Painting and Sculpture), Wolf Foundation, Israel

2006 National Organization For Women, Washington D.C. “The 2006 Intrepid Award”

Lives and works in New York"

Source: http://www.artnet.com/artist/2868/louise-bourgeois.html

"I am a scientific person. I believe in psychoanalysis, in philosophy. For me the only thing that matters is the tangible." Louise Bourgeois

"Her work is deeply involved in the investigation of her own psyche and relation to objects through strong intuition. She constantly evaluates her past and creates work that is based out of this nostalgia and torture."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois was born in 1911 in Paris. She started of as a painter and engraver but by the 1940's had started to focus on sculpture. This is what she is most recognised for and has been heralded as one of the leaders in its field in the twentieth-century. Although born in France she Emigrated to the US in 1938. There her work was influenced by Eueropean Surrelist Artists who had moved there after the war.

"The vision of a little girl trapped and looking out at the world?" Louise Bourgeois

tapit123 contemplations on Louise Bourgeois "Eyes"
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKYGJK1SlcU

A selection of her early work paintings and sculpture

Femme Maison
1946-47
Oil and ink on linen
36" x 14"

PADDLE WOMAN
1947
Bronze
57 3/4 x 16 1/4 x 12 inches
146.7 x 41.3 x 30.5 centimeters

THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND
1947-49
Bronze, dark patina
69 1/4 x 69 x 23 inches
175.9 x 175.3 x 58.4 centimeters

UNTITLED
1947
Ink on tan paper
11 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches
28.6 x 21 centimeters

"For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture." Louise Bourgeois

This Blog is going to contain an index of the life and work of louise bourgeois and my thoughts of her work. She is French-born American Abstract Expressionist Sculptor, born in 1911, I have found that most people (in England) know her from her work for the Unilever Series in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern.