Louise Bourgeois is a very prolific female artist who started working in the late 1940s and is still alive today at the age of 98. She is quite fantastic and her work is extremely personal. Most of her art is about pain, physical and mental, that springs from her difficult childhood. This work is definitely a part of that, but at the same time it is uncannily beautiful. The form of the pieces is just incredibly striking. And the choice to create the piece in gold is magnificent. It has a feeling of opulence but at the same time is quite terrifying. I think her work is a great example of attraction/repulsion. I think there is just something about the form of the human body transformed into a circle that draws me in. There is something really wonderful about the purity of geometric form. Very Greenbergian of me. On a related note, I think I might be a formalist. Still a feminist at heart, but I'm realizing my latest works have a real emphasis on form. Even some of my latest post as well.
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