Looking at Paintings

Professor Boyd
Humanities 1301
February 27, 2004
Looking at Paintings
For my first piece of art I chose a black and white picture by Louise Bourgeois. It is called Sainte Sebastienne. The format is a vertical rectangle and the medium used in this picture is a dry point etching on paper. I chose this piece of art because it reminded me of the Woman of Willendorf , a sculpture that we studied earlier this year. Like the Woman of Willendorf the picture is of a woman's body without a head. I believe the absence of a head is to add emphasis on the figures body. I feel the picture abstract…