The essay discusses three famous artists, Louise Bourgeois, Andy Warhol and Vincent Van Gogh.
Louise Bourgeois The work of Louise Bourgeois is influenced by traumatic events from her childhood and manifested a feminist-inspired body art that carried a strong influence on other artists. It is the highly personal content in her artwork that relates to sexual desire and the body. Perhaps she sought a therapeutic process in her art and developed a highly personal visual language. One finds the use of archetypal imagery in her works based on the adoption of objects such as cages, spiders, medical tools, and spirals that symbolize the feminine psyche and psychological pain. Bourgeois juxtaposes her materials to ...
