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Bourgeois' Femme Maison imagery became a symbol of the feminist art movement in the late 60s and in the 70s. Women in particular brought attention to the body and to issues of biography and personal feelings into artworks.
- Louise Bourgeois
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- Louise Bourgeois. Femme Maison. 1947
Louise Bourgeois. Femme Maison. 1947. Ink, gouache, and...
- Louise Bourgeois
The Femme Maison (1946–47) series of paintings by French American artist Louise Bourgeois address the question of female identity. In these paintings, the heads and bodies of nude female figures have been replaced by architectural forms such as buildings and houses.
Femme Maison – woman house, or house woman. Unlike Picasso's sweet flower and bird women, Bourgeois' housewives are not only beautiful, they are literally under house arrest. Their head is trapped; they are housewives who have grown out of their surroundings.
Louise Bourgeois’s Woman House (Femme Maison) confronts notions of femininity and domesticity. She depicts a nude female figure whose upper half has been replaced by a large house, revisiting woman/house hybrid imagery that she first explored through a series of works in the mid-1940s.
Related Events. Louise Bourgeois, Femme Maison, Installation View, 1981. Only in the last decade has sculptor Louise Bourgeois come to be recognized as one of the great and original talents in American art of the last half-century. Born in Paris in 1911, she studied there with Roger Bissiere and Fernand Leger.
Bourgeois' Femme Maison imagery became a symbol of the feminist art movement in the late 60s and in the 70s. Women, in particular, brought attention to the body and to issues of biography and personal feelings into artworks.
