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Born on Christmas Day in 1911 in Paris, Bourgeois studied math at the Sorbonne, then studied art at the �cole des Beaux-Arts and the Grande Chaumi�re in Montparnasse under L�ger, before moving to New York in 1938. A contemporary and colleague of the Surrealists and Abstract Expressionists Louise Bourgeois' own work has always been at the forefront of new developments in art. Obsessed by memories of her own childhood in France her work has always been deeply autobiographical, and in many different media (painting, printmaking, sculpture, installation, performance) she has explored themes of identity, sex, love, alienation and death. Bourgeois has worked in marble, wood, paint, bronze, plaster, and latex. In the '40s, she produced several tall, thin wooden abstract sculptures. Her later work remains abstract but makes more overt references to the body. |
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