Grace Hartigan was a painter during the time when abstract expressionism was just moving from Paris to New York. She was a struggling artist in New York and became friends with Pollock, de Kooning and more who were at that time also struggling. I was curious about Grace Hartigan because she was also a mother, but she gave her son to her ex-husband to raise and really hardly saw him if ever. She lived a life of poverty and made are history by being the first woman artist to be internationally known. The Museum of Modern Art bought one of her paintings and she is known for moving Abstract expressionism to Pop Art. The love of painting took over her life completely. It was her great love.
I don't know if we would have gotten along. I do not understand how someone can give up parenting to do painting. Love doesn't run out, it grows. I have a hard time not judging on this one. I like to think of myself as non judgmental but sometimes it is hard to understand the diversity. I do like some of her art work and I respect her passion for painting but I can't get past some of the personal choices that she made, I guess I have some growing to do.
Now the search for a woman artist who is a mother and an artist at the same time. None of this one or the other crap.
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