We finished our three sessions with Louise Bourgeois and an image from her 1984 exhibition at MOMA.

These sessions have been a useful reminder of why I follow a lot of women artists. I find their practises less troubling as so many male artists objectified people, women and often young children in a disturbing way.

Interesting but disturbing, Jan Morris modelling for Rossetti was portrayed as Lilith the temptress, although Im sure that Rossetti should be held some what responsible for their affair. Picassos agent refused to display his large output of work centred on his mistresses orifices.

Artist models where warned in much the same way about artists as Actresses were about that casting couch or those who owned etchings.

We are still having to level the playing field and put right so much.

School and teaching is great place to reintroduce women and all those who played a pivotal part in the Art and History.

Starting with the Cave –

A nice finale would be Tracy Emin and Louise Bourgeois documentary where the two artist discuss their work and the search for truth.

Louise Bourgeois didn’t intend to be an artist. Her passions were mathematics and philosophy. That is what she studied at the Sorbonne, after twelve years at Paris’s Lycée Fénelon. Best of all, she liked solid geometry, a field, she has said, “where relations can be anticipated and are eternal.”

Tracy mentions that feeling of handing down, almost like mother and daughter, women have often spoken of passing on the lessons one generation to the next, words of wisdom – So much nicer than the Oedipal path.