Louise Joséphine Bourgeois was a French-American artist. Although she is best known for her large-scale sculpture and installation art, Bourgeois was also a prolific painter and printmaker. The sculpture is called, The Nest and shows spiders of various sizes. Spiders were a common inspiration for much of Bourgeois' work. She didn't view spiders as evil creatures as many do. She viewed spiders as strong and protective. She has related them to her mother multiple times
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