louise bourgeois - prints

 Louise Bourgeois - I enjoy the different viewpoint Louise brings in her work. The faces for me do tell the story and you can read them because of this. She gives a truth in her work and lets the viewer be ok to open up to the idea of a thought or feeling. Either by relation or sympathising.

Such a wide range of printing mediums used and very different. I do love her work and will continue to learn more about this women in years to come know doubt.


Look how the marks are so hard and powerful. This adds to the feel of this print.

birth

Bourgeois revealed her fears, anger, and despair most vividly in depictions of the human face. She called these “portraits of a mood,” and painful emotions are often communicated through contorted expressions or dizzying eyes. Very long hair—a pride of Bourgeois’s for most of her life—became a symbol of sexuality that could represent seduction, entanglement, or vulnerability.

drypoint maybe

Below I believe are works using colour lithographs and drypoints. Using watercolour pencil and ink in some of them.

I like how the pink and red shouts out a female touch against the soft blue hues. It's like something pure while fiery and menacing. The softness of the booby landscapes give a surreal hint at another world. 

happiness

This link shows how the different editions of happiness came about.  https://www.moma.org/collection_lb/browse_results.php?object_id=150640

Childhood, motherhood, breastfeeding and birth plays a big part in these works. I do find it is because of a very womanly touch this images work so well. I think if a man had done them they maybe would of been more sexual and not as soft or with a soft touch.

The images seem to be alive.

To whom it may concern !

A collaboration between Louise Bourgeois and Gary Indiana pairs her beautiful colour-wash male and female torso images with his word-poems, creating a meditation on relationships, sexuality and physicality.

Digital Prints

I like what the colour brings to the each of the works. Simply lines yet so effective.

Louise Bourgeois admired illustrated books as objects, often slowly turning their pages to relish the artistic contributions, the typography, and the overall design. She was also a reader—of literary works, psychology, history, and mythology; her many bouts of insomnia were often mitigated with reading.

The laws of Nature - drypoint 

Just look how happy they are. The drypoint does look very much like pencil.

She has so much to look at I think for more you should visit the MoMA website or the link below

https://www.moma.org/explore/collection/lb/books/books