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Louise Bourgeois

Louise Josephine Bourgeois was born on Christmas Day (25th of December), 1911, Paris, France. She was a French-American artist and sculptor, mostly known for both her modern and contemporary art, and for her spider structures, titled 'Maman' which lead to her being nicknamed 'Spiderwoman'. In 2011, one of her spider works were sold for $10.7 million, a new record price for the artist at auction, and the highest price paid for a work by a woman. Today, she is recognised as the founder of confessional art. After moving to NYC with her American husban, Robert Goldwater in the late 1940s, she turned to sculputre. Although her work is mostly abstract, they are suggestive of the human figure and express themes of anxiety, loneliness and betrayal. Her work was inspired by her childhood trauma of discovering that her English governess was also her father's mistress.

Bourgeois died of heart failure on the 31st of May 2010 (TODAY, TWO YEARS AGO!!) at the Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. She had continued to create more artwork until the day of her death, her final pieces were just finished the week before she had passed away.

Personal Analytical Framework:
The Spider was the sculptor that represented her mother, she was her best friend. As a spider Louise mother was also a weaver keeping things in place and in charge of the tapestry workshop, she was also very intelligent. The spider symbol also symbolised as helpful and protection just like Louise mother.

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon was born on the 28th of October, 1909, Dublin. He is a Irish-born British figurative painted mostly known for his bold, graphic and emotionally raw imagery. His work is somewhat abstract, and appears isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. His painting career started in his early 20's and had been earning a living through interior decoration and furniture/rug designing.

In 1964, he met George Dyer which he claimed breaking into his house. He was about 30 years old and was raised in the East End of London in a family steeped in crime. He lived his life drifting between theft, juvenile detention centres and jail. Francis had usually been with older men before he met Dyer. In 1974, he met another young man named John Edwards who he formed on of his most longest friendships. 

Francis' chronic asthma, which he had for his whole life, had developed into a respiratory condition leading him to an inability to talk or breathe properly. 

Personal Analytical Framework:
Most of Francis Bacon's work consist of paintings of his lovers and friends. Ever since the 1960's, these were typically based on photographs he commissioned from John Deakin. Bacon often directed
these photographs in order to obtain the poses that would best suit the paintings he had in mind.

Chuck Close

Chuck Close was born on the 5th of July, 1940, Monroe, Washington. He suffers from severe dyslexia, causing him to do poorly in school but he then solace in making art. He earnt his MFA from Yale in 1964 and placed in the American art world by creating large-scale, photo-realist portraits that have a blurred effect creating a thin distinction between photography and painting. In 1988, he experienced a severe health issue where he suffered a sudden rupture of a spinal artery. After this incident, he was left almost entirely paralyzed but after rounds of physical therapy, he became permanently confined to a wheelchair but eventually regained partial use of his limbs.

Personal Analysis:

A reading on Close’s work would be incomplete with no discussion of the incident that had left him paralysed, his inability to recognise faces and the subsequent systems that the artist has created to help him navigate in an able bodied world.

Keith Haring

Keith Haring was an American pop/graffiti artist who was born on the 4th of May, 1958, Reading, Pennsylvania and died on the 16th of February, 1990 (Aged 31) in New York City. He was the oldest of 4 children, and was interested in art at an early age. At age 19, in 1978, he moved to New York City, where he studied at the School of Arts and was inspired by graffiti.

After Haring was diagnosed of HIV 1980’s, Haring did as much as he could to promote safe sex within the community.He was successful in bringing a safe sex message to a wider audience and garnered public attention of a disease that was up until then, considered a gay man’s illness. Haring’s passion for social and political change was the catalyst behind many of his public works.