The contemporary artist that I chose to discuss in this paper is Louise Bourgeois and her piece of art ?Eyes". This abstract sculpture is made of marble and dated 1982.
Eyes, 1982
Louise Bourgeois (American, born France, 1911)
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911and studied art at various schools there. In 1938, she immigrated to the United States and continued her studies at the Art Students League in New York. She began her career as a painter and engraver, turning to sculpture in the late 1940s for which she is now recognized as a 20th century leader. When she produced her first sculptural work, her imagery had been influenced by European Surrealist artists who immigrated to the United States after ...