© Louise Bourgeois
The artist Louise Bourgeois has been preoccupied with themes of motherhood and female sexuality since the 1940s. She frequently explores the tensions inherent in the different roles played by women, drawing on her own experiences. In the undulating and aggressively oversized frieze of breasts which constitutes Mamelles, she combines the theme of feminine nurturing with hints of a brazen and even grotesque sexuality. The artist herself has related the work to the predatory nature of the literary character Don Juan, saying that the sculpture ‘portrays a man who lives off the women he courts, making his way from one to the next. Feeding from them but returning nothing, he loves only in a consumptive and selfish manner.’
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Michelangelo
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Louise
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