I really like the interview with Louise. I like how laid back she sounds. I think it is a good attitude to have about her art work. She starts with a certain idea or topic, and she just starts wherever. She will go from paper, to cardboard, to canvas, and then to stone. But she considers each one of those pieces a work of art. Even though she has a final image or look in mind for the end result, she does not cast off all of the work that it took to get the end result.
I also liked how honest she was when she said, "I truly like only the people that help me." So many people are out for themselves, but put up a front so that no one knows that they are that selfish and don't really care about others. She worked to work, to express her desires, her questions, her answers. She didn't do it to be famous, at least that is what she says. I think that she really had no intentions of being this huge artist, otherwise she would not have appreciated her work as it went along on each stage. She truly enjoyed being an artist, and was not overtaken with the money and the fame that it brought. She was in it for the art, and that is what counts.
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Bourgeois, of course, is French. Practical and fanciful. Her claim that all the stages of a work's development are artworks in and of themselves connects her to Hesse in so far as Hesse believed in showing the process of a work's making. The drips, the organic imperfection of her works tie them to Process Art. Bourgeois floats above art movements, though she was heavily influenced by the Surrealists - consider for instance her statement, "You might say I work under a spell, I truly value the spell." It sounds very much like Pollock's trance, but also the Surrealist waking dream (though she rejects "dream talk").
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