Roman Macrae Illustration

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  Louise Bourgeois was a French-American Artist born 1911 and died 2010. She is best known for her giant sculptures however she was also a prolific painter and print maker. In her work she explores multiple themes of family, sexuality, the body and more. I believe her work questions lots of social structures such as patriarchy and authority and tries to question structures of power in the society that she lived through. Her work echoes through feminist art to this day and has influenced many artists in their own work such as Eva Hesse and The Guerrilla Girls and more, however I will explore this later on in this blog.  Although I do not believe Bourgeois's work can be put into a certain artistic movement Bourgeois's art is usually seen with Abstract Expressionism however her work works well in Surrealism and Feminist Art. During the time Bourgeois was working the artistic world was moving from Modern Art (1800's-Mid 1900's) to Contemporary Art (Mid 1900's-Today). Lo...

 

Points Of View When starting this project I tried to think about things that were close to me at the time. Looking around I only saw my house and my parents as fort the unfortunate lock down, but as I started to spend more and more time with my parents I started to get more and more involved in their work life. I took an interest in my mothers work of being a homelessness and housing officer, I looked at what she was doing and the people she talks to on a daily basis and decided to do my 'points of view' project on homelessness. San Francisco My first pieces of research that I have concluded have been somewhat distant to me however highlight the global issue of homelessness, I looked into places with high homeless populations such as San Francisco. I watched a few short documentaries on youtube about San Francisco but the one I focused on was titled 'Chaos by the Bay: The Truth About Homelessness In San Francisco', the documentary really highlighted how evident the prob...