In this episode, we focus on the work of one French-American sculptor Louise Bourgeois. Her eighty year career explored lifelong themes of  childhood, motherhood, and family identity. 

Louise Bourgeois’s Spider sculptures are an ode to her mother — the spider series became the centerpiece of the last chapter of her life.

Louise Bourgeois returned again and again to the image and symbol  of the spider in her work. Her spider sculptures can be seen in museums and public spaces around the world.

Spiders features Liz Lidgett Gallery artist Betsy Enzensberger. Ten Minute Masterpieces is hosted by art advisor Liz Lidgett and produced by Maribeth Romslo.

CREDITS

• Credits:
  • Premium Beat: Creative Morning
  • Epidemic Music: Until the End, Frontiers are Where You Find Them, Finnish Friendship, Alone in Paris
  • The Spider, The Mistress, and the Tangerine Documentary

RESEARCH AND LINKS OF INTEREST

• Art News "Louise Bourgeois Spider Sculptures History"
• Bourgeois' Spiders at Tate Modern
• CNN "Why Louise Bourgeois made her iconic spider sculptures"
• The Collector "Why Did Louise Bourgeois Make Spider Sculptures?"
• Spiderwoman Documentary
• TateShots // Louise Bourgeois – 'I Transform Hate Into Love' 
• ArtSpace: ""I Don’t Need an Interview to Clarify My Thoughts": An Interview with Louise Bourgeois"
• Issue Magazine: Interview with Louise Bourgeois
• The Easton Foundation Biography of Louise Bourgois
• Spider at the National Gallery of Art

At Segregated Drinking Fountain
Photographed in 1956 by Gordon Parks (1912-2006)
The Gordon Parks Foundation

In the episode, we take a look at our first photograph on the podcast – Gordon Parks’ image from 1956 entitled At Segregated Drinking Fountain.

In the summer of 1956, Life Magazine sent Gordon Parks to Alabama to document Black Americans living under Jim Crow laws in the South. Twenty-six of his images  from this assignment appeared in the September 24th, 1956 issue of Life Magazine in a photo essay called “The Restraints – Open and Hidden”.

The photographs of Gordon Parks have an enduring power. Through quiet moments of dignity,  he documented people who refused to be dehumanized. The gentleness of Parks’ photographs became persuasive acts of protest against injustice

At Segregated Drinking Fountain features Liz Lidgett Gallery artist Roma Osowo. Ten Minute Masterpieces is hosted by art advisor Liz Lidgett and produced by Maribeth Romslo.

Water Lilies (series - Nymphéas in French)
250 oil on canvas paintings by Claude Monet (b. 1840, d. 1926) created between 1897-1926

ABOUT THIS EPISODE:
In the episode, we explore a prolific series of paintings – Claude Monet’s Water Lilies. In the last thirty years of his life, Monet painted more than 250 works in his Water Lilies series at his beloved gardens in Giverny, France.

Paintings from Monet’s Water Lilies series are on prominent display at museums all over the world, including Musée de l'Orangerie, Musée d'Orsay, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Art Institute of Chicago.

Water Lilies features Liz Lidgett Gallery artist Kit Porter. Ten Minute Masterpieces is hosted by art advisor Liz Lidgett and produced by Maribeth Romslo.

FULL SHOW NOTES:
https://www.lizlidgett.com/ten-minute-masterpiece-water-lilies