Sculpture Louise Bourgeois Artwork

The artist likens this piece to a table under which she spent time watching her parents legs move across the room. Maman 1999 is a bronze stainless steel and marble sculpture by the artist louise bourgeois.

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Louise bourgeois was a eminent american french artist of the 20th century best known for her arachnid like maman sculptures. Although she is best known for her large scale sculpture and installation art bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. In 1947 louise bourgeois drew two small ink and charcoal drawings of a spider. An image from a louise bourgeois retrospective at the pompidou paris in 2008 including untitled 1950 back right and femme volage 1951 centre.

Fifty years later in the late 1990s she created a series of steel and bronze spider sculptures. She is recognized today as the founder of confessional art. Louise bourgeois in 1990 with her marble sculpture eye to eye 1970 photo raimon ramis. Beginning her artistic practice in her native paris louise bourgeois was originally associated with surrealism due to her integration of fantastic elements into her prints and sculptures.

The sculpture which depicts a spider is among the world s largest measuring over 30 ft high and over 33 ft wide 927 x 891 x 1024 cm. The blind leading the blind constructed from pointed wooden planks attached to a flat beam is an early sculpture in which bourgeois used abstract forms to express personal feelings about her parents. Made of bronze stainless steel and marble this sculpture is scary as it is inspiring in all its eerie glory. Louise bourgeois spider i 1995 artist rooms tate and national galleries of scotland.

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