Spiders have many characteristics as arthropods that exist in the real world. People gave him various meanings in the field of art according to their characteristics. In the field of film, for example, American writer Stan Lee and cartoonist Steve Dit...
Spiders have many characteristics as arthropods that exist in the real world. People gave him various meanings in the field of art according to their characteristics. In the field of film, for example, American writer Stan Lee and cartoonist Steve Ditko created the superhero image of Spider-Man by taking advantage of the spider’s characteristics. The image was also adapted into a movie and broadcast to theaters. A very famous artist in the field of modern art used a surrealistic metaphor to perfectly fuse the external image of a spider with his own mental world into his installation work. The artist is Louise Bourgeois.
Installation art is an important art form in which modern artists express emotional ideas. Surrealism is an important art school in Europe in the 1920s, gradually weakening after the outbreak of World War II, and has since been constantly absorbed into other art fields. “Eunyu” is a major feature of surrealism and is often used by artists to create works on surrealism, which brings surrealism back to life in installation art.
In Bourgeois’ installation work <Maman>, he embodies his mother as a spider and uses surreal metaphors to show the audience the complex emotions toward his mother and the childhood sadness behind it.
This study focuses on surreal metaphor expressions in installation art from the perspective of bourgeois spider images, explores the spiritual world of bourgeois by interpreting metaphors in bourgeois installation work <Maman>, effectively demonstrates the role of spider images in installation art, and derives its creative meaning.