Louise Bourgeois Quotes


The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.


Citations

Bourgeois, Louise. Ode à Ma Mère. Éditions du Solstice, 1995.

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Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois
  • Born: December 25, 1911
  • Died: May 31, 2010
  • Nationality: French, American
  • Profession: Artist

Louise Joséphine Bourgeois 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. 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.