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Louise Bourgeois's Spiders in the Large Courtyard of the Winter Palace The Spider has become a symbol of Louise Bourgeois's late work. As early as drawings from 1947 we can find this amazing little creature that lives alongside people, an example of a perfect, rational and expressive construction created by nature. Its web protects, catches food and provides a barrier to dangers. For Bourgeois the spider is associated with her mother, with her patience, the industriousness and masterly skill of the weaver restoring tapestries. Fifty years later Bourgeois again turned to the image of the spider, but this time enlarged it to gigantic dimensions, creating a monumental sculptural form cast in bronze. The combination of disproportionately long, unstable legs and a small round body at first creates an impression of imbalance, but the strict, carefully thought out architectonics of the sculpture, its geometric simplicity and laconism demonstrate the amazing sense of harmonious equilibrium that characterizes the work of Louise Bourgeois. |
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