A very simple sculpture. What does it represent? What is the history behind it? What does it mean to her? I couldn’t find much on this particular sculpture. I do know that she 
middle child of three. So maybe it is as simple as that!?
Louise Bourgeois says that she transfered her emotions and/or energies through her sculptures. People who interviewed Bourgeois and from viewing videos of her one can see the type of energy she produces. She is a lively lady even in her late ages and very precise. She wants/makes you understand what she is saying or making and she does the same when being asked questions. She is a master in all mediums, wood, fabric, rubber, and stone and her sculptures are erotic images and some are even found in nature (Cumuls). Her pieces also show/produce feelings of being vulnerable and fragile, which Bourgeois also relates closely to sexuality and erotic. Bourgeois was the first woman sculptorin 1982, to have the New York’s Museum of Modern Art a retrospective of her art work, one of her many accomplishments.
Louis Bourgeois has said that Janus Flueri is“its interior mass expresses strength and hardness. It is perhaps a self-portrait – one of many”. Janus Flueri is a very provacative piece of art, which was completed in bronze in 1968. The background information of the piece is that Janus is the Roman God with two faces, one that faces towards the past and the other facing towards the future. The God had a bipolar aspect to his empire/temple, meaning things were either closed (in times of peace) and open (in times of war). The piece of art that Bourgeois created from my eyes is two penises facing opposite directions, much like the God named Janus, but the connection of the two penises is what appears to be a vagina. This would also make sense to me because Janus had the biloar mentality which I think Louise, may have been bipolar throughout her work. Janus flueri, is often described with the adjective “flowered” which is a visual metaphor for the female genitalia as a blossom. Masculine and feminine are once again united in this work with two faces in which, through a subsequent formal shift, penis becomes breast(www.http://www.centrepompidou.fr/education/ressources//ENS-bourgeois-EN//ENS-bourgeois-EN.html). The piece of artwork is very unique much like that of Louise Bourgeois and it takes a few minutes to take in everything that she intended for us, but once realized offers a very unique perspective.
Terrifying Expressions 