Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911. She was very well educated and helped out her parents draw missing parts for their antique tapestries. It seems like she was wealthy because she went to a prestigious art school in France. She was dissatisfied with official art education and led her to explore a different path towards art. After she got married, she moved to New York. Her trip to America helped her discover that she was an artist. Her past troubled her thoughts sometimes.During her childhood, her father had an affair and her mother put up with it. Bourgeois was depressed at times, but her sculptures helped her to cope through it. Her art is what she used to get her emotions out.
Picasso was the son of a painter who taught drawing. So, Picasso's art was always admired He became very smart and mastered his techniques in art while still a teenager. His move from Barcelona to Paris motivated him to try a new direction in art. Picasso was part of a generation of artists and his art, along with others, helped open up a new territory for western art to explore. His art work "Seated Woman Holding a Fan" was known as cubism. Cubism is a form in painting. Art was changing all around him and he knew it was because of "photography". At that time, photography was a new invention and he took that for granted. Some people thought that photography will be the new "painting" and painting would be forgotten. But, Picasso didn't think so. He considered photography a new form of art.
The artist who stood out the most for me will be Bourgeois because her story could relate to a lot of other artists and self-artists. Some people find art as a way to take their mind off of things. And I think that is something I would like to create someday. Art can make a person feel liberated or accomplished and much more. If, a person has a fear, that person can put that fear in their art and by the end of the day you can decide whether you want to, like Bourgeois said "hack away at it" then so be it. I know it'll make that person feel way better! AND You would be surprised at what you can make.
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