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Last Saturaday in New York, French-born American sculptor Louise Bourgeois died after heart attack, whose abstract explorations of themes such as birth, sexuality and death made her one of the world’s most influential contemporary artists. From media reports, based in New York since 1938, Bourgeois, 98, gained fame late in her long career and kept working to the end of her life. Louise Bourgeois had long been regarded by her contemporaries as one of the world’s most important artists, Bourgeois’ work was almost unknown to the wider art world until she was 70, when New York’s Museum of Modern Art presented a solo show of her career in 1982. Bourgeois work tackling themes on male and female bodies and emotions of anger, betrayal, even murder, reflected influences of surrealism, primitivism and the early modernist sculptors such as Alberto Giacometti and Constantin Brancusi. She received honors and one of those is a National Medal of Arts, awarded by President Clinton in 1997. In October, she was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, N.Y. Read More Sculptor Louise Bourgeois Died at 98 is a post from: Daily World Buzz Continue reading →