About Louise Bourgeois
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 a lot in common with Surrealism and feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement.
Known for:
Maman|The Welcoming Hands|Spider
Notable works:
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Awards:
Praemium Imperiale|Austrian Decoration for Science and Art|Wolf Prize in Arts|National Medal of Arts|National Women's Hall of Fame|Knight of the Legion of Honour|Great Immigrants Award|honorary doctorate|Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award|Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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