Discover how legendary artists like Louise Bourgeois drew inspiration from their surroundings in this delightful series created with The Met. Step inside Louise Bourgeois’s world and find the spark to create your own art. Ever wondered what sparked your favorite artists’ creativity? This charming illustrated collection reveals just that, showing you their views and inspiring your own masterpieces.
Meet Louise Bourgeois, the famous French American artist known for her paintings, prints, and giant spider sculptures, and explore the emotions and stories that fueled her work. Dive into each artist’s tale, uncover fun facts, and try your hand at making art inspired by their unique perspectives. Perfect for young creatives eager to explore and imagine!
Louise Bourgeois (1911 – 2010) was a French-American 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 much in common with Surrealism and feminist art, she was not formally affiliated with a particular artistic movement.
About the Author
Amy Guglielmo
Amy Guglielmo is a prolific children’s author, artist, art educator, and art activist. She has written a number of books about art for children, including What the Artist Saw: Vincent Van Gogh (2021), published by DK.
About the Illustrator
Katy Knapp
Katy Knapp is a professional illustrator living in Norwich, United Kingdom.
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