Louis Bourgeois's cathartic works helped her exorcize childhood memories and fears, deeply buried inside her psyche.Her works are drawn from personal experiences but are oblique references to her past, leaving much room for imagination and interpretation by the viewer.A suggestive play of meaning is created through a juxtaposition of objects and accessories that resemble the comparatively unregulated realm of the unconscious mind.American Art critic Robert Storr describes Bourgeois's work thus " The content of her art is not primarily autobiographical but archetypal, an astonishingly rich, nuanced, sometimes alarming, sometimes funny and almost always startling fusion of classical personifications of human passions and terrors.Symbolist variations on them, Freudian reinterpretations of both, direct and indirect transcription of her own unblinking glimpses into the murkiest waters of the psyche."
Louis Bourgeois's works are abstract, suggestive, ambiguous, familiar yet unfamiliar, and disturbing.
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"The Destruction of the Father" 1974, Louis Bourgeois .
This work resembles acavernous mouth activity and here
Bourgeois celebrates a childhood fantasy of
slaying her
dictatorial father at the supper table. |
Tracey Emin's works are direct,explicit, lack complexity and ambiguity.Quite unlike Bourgeois, Emin provides specific details of events , experiences and emotions from the past presented within the framework of familiar forms and materials of mass or popular culture.The materials she employs are domestic objects, crafts text , videos,neon lights. In doing so, she leaves both her pleasures and pain open to easy public scrutiny.
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| "Everyone I Have Ever Slept With (1963-1995)' 1995 .Tracey Emin is literal in its title of this work which commemorates family members, platonic friends, sexual partners as well as well as aborted foetuses.Emin provides reminders of of the many intimacies that her bed has been host to without differentiating between them. |
Both Bourgeois and Emin stretched the limits of autobiographical conventions through their radical, emotionally charged works ,by wearing their heart on their sleeves , by making their very private moments public.The objective of both the
artists was the same to transcend traumatic memories of a painful past.
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