mollyzbrownpizza

OMG this is a disturbing, disgusting woman. The one first handkerchief red spiral looks like there is blood on it. what does white handkerchiefs mean again?

Are_we_sure

or that you can make art from something horrible without celebrating something horrible.

Rmm

She's a sicko. Ilooked for more info on her. Now deceased, but her "art" outlives her and convicts her. https://www.artsy.net/artist/louise-bourgeois#!

fartyshorts

Here's a list of some of Tony's favorite artists, based on interviews and articles:

The weirder ones are at the top of the list. Click name to see google image search for their name + art.

kazza64

its just pure evil isnt it

TrishaUK

The 'art' is grotesque but the handkerchiefs are very disturbing, especially the one with the the little red dots and what look like 'ties/restratints for little limbs'. Fabric work http://i.imgur.com/j538kCL.jpg - Considering what we know about the handkerchiefs being placed under a child/baby victim, I think these 'exhibits' should be dna tested to see how many different children's/adult bodily fluids are on them. This is just too sick to contemplate, I wish I were someone with authority to do something about these sickos!!!!! - Good find Gneo I have not seen many of these photos before.

Gneo

Thanks

Are_we_sure

She is a great artist. Her work has nothing to do with Jeffrey Dahmer as I've proven. You show the first of her arched pieces and the sketches from that are from the late 80s.

I believe what you refer to as cages she refers to as Cells.

angry_mob

yeah, this is interesting work. art is not meant to always make you comfortable & happy. to me this is an exploration into the confines of the darker side of the human psyche. i truly see no pedophilia in this. it's just art, if you don't understand art you should stick to simple subjects that don't challenge you.

Gneo

if you don't understand art you should stick to simple subjects that don't challenge you.

If YOU don't understand the art connection you should read into it more

RweSure

There is no art connection. It's complete speculation by the likes of folks who believe the Dahmer connection.

Gneo

Let me reply your down voted profile,

Beside that you call her a great artist

Would you call it a cell or a cage ?

http://wikidiff.com/cage/cell

Oh and by the way i think you forgot to post the link to your proof...

Are_we_sure

By calling them "cages" or "no arms" you're reducing the artist's work/intent. She called them Cells deliberately. And cell has multiple meanings. Prisoners live in cells. But so do monks. This is also one of her cells. It's not a cage.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/08/e8/68/08e86875f8dda563c1e667d0de2b2cc5.jpg

Her concept of a cell, is a collection of pieces that is separate from the museum-goer. With regard to the Cells, you can't walk up to a single bit of sculpture, you had to encounter the whole thing at once. So it becomes like architecture or a theater set. Part of the effect or the meaning or your response is how the items relate to each other.

I didn't forget to link to my proof because I have done that several times on here, but here you go.

She conceived of her first Arch of Hysteria in 1989 two years before Dahmer was arrested. That pose was inspired by a French neurologist who studied hysteria. here's her first sketch of the first Arch. https://www.moma.org/collection_lb/browse_results.php?object_id=70922

This image is from 1824 and depicts, Opisthotonus , a painful spasming of the muscles that victims of tetanus get https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CdWVo4fWAAEMM_4.jpg

Charcot the neurologist who Bourgeois has cited has her inspiration (and who was a teacher of Freud) talked about the arc de cercle that hysterical patients and epileptics sometimes suffered. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Krzysztof_Owczarek/publication/221926258/figure/fig6/AS:305190860279813@1449774579686/Fig-6-The-circular-arc-arc-de-cercle-Paul-Richer-Etudes-cliniques-sur.png

She spoke about and was quite clear about what inspired her Arch of Hysteria. There's no mystery with this one.

Rmm

Great post highlighting Podesta's satanically sick taste in art.

Commoner

'Keep in mind Tony Podesta needed to do construction work on his house to be able to place the sculpture, would it be to far fetched... to think he maybe also have one of her cages inside his house ?'

no

Gneo

:)