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=Louise Bourgeois= || Louise Bourgeois born in Paris on December 25, 1911, moved to New York at the age of 27 where she continues to live and work. She mostly worked as an engraver and a painter in the beginning of her career but switched to mainly doing sculptures in the 40's. Her best known works are Cells and Spiders- with perhaps her most famous work being the (meaning mother in French) residing in front of the National Gallery of Canada.

Many of Bourgeois's work are inspired by her childhood experiences, which involves an adulterous father, while her mother denied the affair. As she puts it, "My childhood has never lost its magic, it has never lost its mystery, and it has never lost its drama."(PBS) Many of her works involve the body and have hints of sexuality. Many of the Cell sculptures are abstract expression of internal states and are filled with elements of fragility and vulnerability which she views as big parts of sexuality. What is interesting is that Bourgeois has been noted to claim she thinks she is the "striking-image" of her father since birth, perhaps a partial cause of the intensity seen through her work. All the anger, jealousy, vulnerability and fragility come through while keeping a playful mood in her work. Also interesting to note is the influence of geometry in her abstract work which can perhaps be linked to her studies of mathematics at Sorbonne University.


 * [[image:SleepingFigre1911-1950.jpg caption="Sleeping Figre1911-1950"]] || [[image:Mamelles1991.jpg width="489" height="282" caption="Mamelles 1991"]] || [[image:Couple2001.jpg width="273" height="405" caption="Couple 2001"]] ||

**Sources http://library.artstor.org []**
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: [] PBS: [|http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/bourgeois/index.html]