“A
work of art doesn’t have to be explained. If you do not have any feeling about
this, I cannot explain it to you. If this doesn’t touch you, I have failed”
- Louise Bourgeois
Bourgeois's artwork is
renowned for its highly personal thematic content involving the unconscious,
sexual desire, and the body. These themes draw on events in her childhood for
which she considered making art a therapeutic or cathartic process.
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, medical tools, and sewn appendages to symbolize the feminine psyche,
beauty, and psychological pain.
Through the use of abstract
form and a wide variety of media, Bourgeois dealt with notions of universal
balance, playfully juxtaposing materials conventionally considered male or
female. She would, for example, use rough or hard materials most strongly
associated with masculinity to sculpt soft biomorphic forms suggestive of
femininity.
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