art is to console those who are broken by life

Louise Bourgeois, What is the Shape of This Problem?, 1999, lithography and letter press, series of 9 (x)

LM: Tehching is my friend, confidant, lover, son, opponent, husband, brother, playmate, sparring partner, mother, father, etc. The list goes on and on. There isn’t one word or one archetype that fits. I feel very deeply for him. 

Lady Reading Book Hotel Room, 1931

August by Mary Oliver / Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity's Gate) by Vincent van Gogh, 1890

Hilma af Klint, The Swan (1915)

Louise Bourgeois - Weaving (2001)

Berthe Morisot (French, 1841 - 1895): Jeune fille cueillant des fleurs (1890s) (via Sotheby’s)

Ana Mendieta: Fuego de Tierra (Kate Horsfield; Nereyda Garcia-Ferraz; Branda Miller, 1987)

Art by Eugéne Bidau (French, 1839-1899)

Tejida abstracción. Teresa Lanceta, Texts by Antoní Marí, Eduardo Scala, Marta González, and Teresa Lanceta, Museu Tèxtil, Terrassa/Museo de Teruel/Museo de Arte Moderno, Ibiza, 2000

Kusama: Infinity (Heather Lenz, 2018)

Art by Gustave Doré.

Kaye Donachie

Nelly Agassi - Palace of Tears, 2002

HOW COME ONLY THE UNBORN HAVE THE RIGHT TO LIFE? Barbara Kruger 1992

Hilma af Klint, The Swan (1915)

the final four rooms of my series!  figured i might as well post ‘em as a set since they all got done around the same time