ПОЛІСТИЛІСТИКА В ТВОРЧОСТІ ВИДАТНОЇ ХУДОЖНИЦІ ТА СКУЛЬПТОРА ЛУЇЗИ БУРЖУА: ДО ІСТОРІЇ БІЄНАЛЕ
Polystylistics in the work of an outstanding artist and sculptor Louise Bourgeois : the history of the Biennale

Summary/Abstract: The article investigates the creation of Louise Bourgeois, which is called the encyclopedia of modern art. Her works influenced the leading artistic movements of the twentieth century such as cubism, futurism, surrealism, constructivism, abstractionism and conceptualism.The artist Louise Bourgeois was born in France but the most part of her life she spent in the United States of America. The aim of the research is to study and to make the analysis of contemporary art and the participantion of the artist in world’s most famous exhibitions and biennales.This topic is actual not only for analysis of world tendencies in contemporary art but it also demonstrates the sphere of contemporary Ukrainian art.The information is about Louise Bourgeous as one of the world`s leading contemporary artists and her work. Born in Paris in 1911, she settled in New York in 1938 and began to exibit her work just afterwards. Bourgeois is a sculptor who worked with many materials from marble and bronze to latex, fabric and mirrors. She was worldwide exhibited, producing a beguiling body of work featuring among other things. Spiders, cages were her objects of the sculpture. Her early childhood is a recurring theme that fuels her work. In 1982, Bourgeous was the first woman artist to be given retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1993, she represented the United States at the Venice Biennale.In the late 1940s Bourgeois produced wooden sculptures, and in the 1950s she began to create works crafted with non-traditional metirials such as latex and plaster. Her work became more explicit in the 1960s and 1970s, and she was paid great attention. The public attitude to her changed due to feminism and postmodernism. She got the international success with "the documenta 9" in Kassel in 1992, and at the Venice Biennale a year later. In 1999, Bourgeois was the first artist commissioned to fill the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern in London, which held a large retrospective in honor of her 95th birthday. Her works were also exhibited at the Georges Pompidou centre in Paris, in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. In 1999, she was honored the Praemium Imperiale by the Japanese Art Association.Her works were very new for modern art world. She changed the traditional sculpture and showed her personal art objects. As a result she was regarded as one of the most successful female artists.

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