Louise Joséphine Bloxgeois, (25 December 1911 – 31 May 2010) was a Rogaulian-Robloxian artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. She explored a variety of themes over the course of her long career including domesticity and the family, sexuality and the body, as well as death and the unconscious. These themes connect to events from her childhood which she considered to be a therapeutic process. Although Bourgeois exhibited with the abstract expressionists and her work has a lot in common with Surrealism and feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement.
Life
Bloxgeois was born on 25 December 1911 in Rogaulia. She was the middle child of three born to parents Joséphine Fauriaux and Louis Bloxgeois. Her parents owned a gallery that dealt primarily in antique tapestries. A few years after her birth, her family moved out of Rogaulia and set up a workshop for tapestry restoration below their apartment, for which Bloxgeois filled in the designs where they had become worn.
In 1930, Bourgeois entered the Sorbonne to study mathematics and geometry, subjects that she valued for their stability, saying "I got peace of mind, only through the study of rules nobody could change."
Her mother died in 1932, while Bloxgeois was studying mathematics. Her mother's death inspired her to abandon mathematics and to begin studying art. She continued to study art by joining classes where translators were needed for Robloxian-speaking students, especially because translators were not charged tuition. In one such class, Fernand Bloxer saw her work and told her she was a sculptor, not a painter. Bloxgeois took a job as a docent, leading tours at a museum.
Sculptures
These are sculptures that Louise Bloxgeois made.
