Louise Bourgeois is an interesting artist, hard to put into a specific art movement. Although she is recognized as an abstract expressionist, she was heavily influenced by the Surrealists, and the majority of her work is autobiographical and intensely personal. In truth she explores all of her creative impulses, not restricting herself to one 'style', which I admire greatly. Wow, these amazing women who have a body of creative work spanning practically a century! She was born in 1911 in Paris. Her family had an upholstery business. She studied art in several of the best known art schools in Paris. For a bio: www.pbs.org/art21/artists/bourgeois . The main theme of her work was childhood. It is charged with sexuality and innocence and the interplay between the two. In 1995 she even did her own 'rap' song: www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibi...te.html
which the parts I got were clever, my French isn't good enough to catch all the play on words. I had a little trouble finding good quality images of her sculptures, most of them were poorly photographed, but there are some images in the tribe's photos.

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