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Home Arts Educational magazines Jean, Raymond —. Print this article Print all entries for this topic Cite this article. Le bois vert poems , P. Bourgeois incorporated those autobiographical references to her sculpture Quarantania I , on display in the Cullen Sculpture Garden at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. For Bourgeois the early s represented the difficulties of a transition to a new country and the struggle to enter the exhibition world of New York City.
Her work during this time was constructed from junkyard scraps and driftwood which she used to carve upright wood sculptures. The impurities of the wood were then camouflaged with paint, after which nails were employed to invent holes and scratches in the endeavor to portray some emotion.
The Sleeping Figure is one such example which depicts a war figure that is unable to face the real world due to vulnerability. Throughout her life, Bourgeois's work was created from revisiting of her own troubled past as she found inspiration and temporary catharsis from her childhood years and the abuse she suffered from her father. Slowly she developed more artistic confidence, although her middle years are more opaque, which might be due to the fact that she received very little attention from the art world despite having her first solo show in This transition was a turning point.
She referred to her art as a series or sequence closely related to days and circumstances, describing her early work as the fear of falling which later transformed into the art of falling and the final evolution as the art of hanging in there. Her conflicts in real life empowered her to authenticate her experiences and struggles through a unique art form. In , Bourgeois and her husband moved into a terraced house at West 20th Street , in Chelsea, Manhattan , where she lived and worked for the rest of her life. Despite the fact that she rejected the idea that her art was feminist, Bourgeois's subject was the feminine.
Works such as Femme Maison , Torso self-portrait , Arch of Hysteria , all depict the feminine body. In the late 's, her imagery became more explicitly sexual as she explored the relationship between men and women and the emotional impact of her troubled childhood. Sexually explicit sculptures such as Janus Fleuri, show she was not afraid to use the female form in new ways.
Feminist Essays on Women's Art and became an icon of the feminist art movement. From until , Bourgeois worked at the School of Visual Arts in New York where she taught printmaking and sculpture. In the early s, Bourgeois would hold gatherings called "Sunday, bloody Sundays" at her home in Chelsea.
These salons would be filled with young artists and students whose work would be critiqued by Bourgeois. Bourgeois ruthlessness in critique and her dry sense of humor lead to the naming of these meetings. Bourgeois inspired many young students to make art that was feminist in nature. Bourgeois aligned herself with activists and became a member of the Fight Censorship Group, a feminist anti-censorship collective founded by fellow artist Anita Steckel.
In the s, the group defended the use of sexual imagery in artwork. In Bourgeois was commissioned by the General Services Administration to create Facets of the Sun , her first public sculpture. Until then, she had been a peripheral figure in art whose work was more admired than acclaimed.
In an interview with Artforum , timed to coincide with the opening of her retrospective, she revealed that the imagery in her sculptures was wholly autobiographical. She shared with the world that she obsessively relived through her art the trauma of discovering, as a child, that her English governess was also her father's mistress.
Bourgeois had another retrospective in at Documenta 9 in Kassel, Germany. She created the piece I Do , depicting two flowers growing from one stem, to benefit the nonprofit organization Freedom to Marry. Bourgeois has said "Everyone should have the right to marry. To make a commitment to love someone forever is a beautiful thing.
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The New York Times said that her work "shared a set of repeated themes, centered on the human body and its need for nurture and protection in a frightening world. Her husband, Robert Goldwater , died in Her first son, Michel, died in Femme Maison —47 is a series of paintings in which Bourgeois explores the relationship of a woman and the home. In the works, women's heads have been replaced with houses, isolating their bodies from the outside world and keeping their minds domestic. This theme goes along with the dehumanization of modern art.
Destruction of the Father is a biographical and a psychological exploration of the power dominance of father and his offspring. The piece is a flesh-toned installation in a soft and womb-like room. Made of plaster, latex, wood, fabric, and red light, Destruction of the Father was the first piece in which she used soft materials on a large scale. Upon entering the installation, the viewer stands in the aftermath of a crime.
Set in a stylized dining room with the dual impact of a bedroom , the abstract blob-like children of an overbearing father have rebelled, murdered, and eaten him. But this goes on day after day. There is tragedy in the air. Once too often he has said his piece. He is unbearably dominating although probably he does not realize it himself.
A kind of resentment grows and one day my brother and I decided, 'the time has come!
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We took him apart and dismembered him, we cut off his penis. And he became food. We ate him up She was 70 years old and a mixed media artist who worked on paper, with metal, marble and animal skeletal bones. Childhood family traumas "bred an exorcism in art" and she desperately attempted to purge her unrest with her work.
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She felt she could get in touch with issues of female identity, the body, the fractured family, long before the art world and society considered them expressed subjects in art. This was Bourgeous's way to find her center and stabilize her emotional unrest. The New York Times said at the time that "her work is charged with tenderness and violence, acceptance and defiance, ambivalence and conviction. While in her eighties, Bourgeois produced two series of enclosed installation works she referred to as Cells.
Many are small enclosures into which the viewer is prompted to peer inward at arrangements of symbolic objects; others are small rooms into which the viewer is invited to enter. In the cell pieces, Bourgeois uses earlier sculptural forms, found objects as well as personal items that carried strong personal emotional charge for the artist.
The cells enclose psychological and intellectual states, primarily feelings of fear and pain. Bourgeois stated that the Cells represent "different types of pain; physical, emotional and psychological, mental and intellectual Each Cell deals with a fear. Each Cell deals with the pleasure of the voyeur, the thrill of looking and being looked at.
In the late s, Bourgeois began using the spider as a central image in her art. Maman , which stands more than nine metres high, is a steel and marble sculpture from which an edition of six bronzes were subsequently cast. The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. My family was in the business of tapestry restoration, and my mother was in charge of the workshop. Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted.