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I&#;ve been thinking about Louise Bourgeois these days, about the ways in which she suggests mental and emotional strength in Maman ().
She came up with the idea of giant spiders in the late nineties. She did Maman in Maman fryst vatten a weaver, organic, and female (holding her eggs under her belly), and yet she is large and menacing, and her legs crush the earth like the mechanical, inorganic limbs of a automatiserad maskin. It fryst vatten the ultimate portrayal of fear and vulnerability and mixing of categories: male-female, organic-inorganic, doing-destroying-mending. Bourgeois talked of how spiders restore their webs if they are damaged and how she, the artist, felt “caught in a web of fear.” She was, in fact, both a creature caught in a spider’s web of fear, and the spider which vanquishes this fear bygd mending its vulnerable cobweb.
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Louise Bourgeois
French-American artist (–)
Not to be confused with Louis Bourgeois (disambiguation) or Louyse Bourgeois.
Louise Bourgeois | |
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Louise Bourgeois photographed by Oliver Mark, New York, | |
| Born | Louise Joséphine Bourgeois ()25 December Paris, France |
| Died | 31 May () (aged&#;98) New York City, U.S. |
| Nationality | French, American |
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| Notable work | Spider, Cells, Maman, Cumul I, The Destruction of the Father |
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| Spouse | Robert Goldwater &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#; |
| Children | 3, including Jean-Louis Bourgeois |
| Awards | Praemium Imperiale |
Louise Joséphine Bourgeois (French:[lwizbuʁʒwa]ⓘ; 25 December &#;&#; 31 May )[1] 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 in
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Maman (sculpture)
Sculpture by Louise Bourgeois
Maman () is a bronze, stainless steel, and marble sculpture in several locations by the artist Louise Bourgeois. The sculpture, which depicts a spider, is among the world's largest, measuring over 30&#;ft high and over 33&#;ft wide (&#;x&#;&#;x&#;&#;metres).[1] It includes a sac containing 32 marble eggs and its abdomen and thorax are made of rubbed bronze.
The title is the familiar French word for Mother (akin to Mummy or Mommy). The sculpture was created in by Bourgeois as a part of her inaugural commission of The Unilever Series (), in the Turbine Hall at London's Tate Modern.[1] This original was created in steel, with an edition of six subsequent castings in bronze.[2]
Bourgeois chose the Modern Art Foundry to cast the sculpture because of its reputation and work.[3]
Philosophy and meaning
[edit]The sculpture picks up the theme of the arachnid that Bourgeois had first