Restless Ambition is popular PDF and ePub book, written by Cathy Curtis (Writer on art) in 2015, it is a fantastic choice for those who relish reading online the Art genre. Let's immerse ourselves in this engaging Art book by exploring the summary and details provided below. Remember, Restless Ambition can be Read Online from any device for your convenience.
Restless Ambition Book PDF Summary
This first-ever biography of American painter Grace Hartigan traces her rise from virtually self-taught painter to art-world fame, her plunge into obscurity after leaving New York to marry a scientist in Baltimore, and her constant efforts to reinvent her style and subject matter. Along the way, there were multiple affairs, four troubled marriages, a long battle with alcoholism, and a chilly relationship with her only child. Attempting to channel her vague ambitions after an early marriage, Grace struggled to master the basics of drawing in night-school classes. She moved to New York in her early twenties and befriended Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and other artists who were pioneering Abstract Expressionism. Although praised for the coloristic brio of her abstract paintings, she began working figuratively, a move that was much criticized but ultimately vindicated when the Museum of Modern Art purchased her painting The Persian Jacket in 1953. By the mid-fifties, she freely combined abstract and representational elements. Grace-who signed her paintings Hartigan- was a full-fledged member of the men's club that was the 1950s art scene. Featured in Time, Newsweek, Life, and Look, she was the only woman in MoMA's groundbreaking 12 Americans exhibition in 1956, and the youngest artist-and again, only woman-in The New American Painting, which toured Europe in 1958-1959. Two years later she moved to Baltimore, where she became legendary for her signature tough-love counsel to her art school students. Grace continued to paint throughout her life, seeking-for better or worse-something truer and fiercer than beauty.
Detail Book of Restless Ambition PDF
- Author : Cathy Curtis (Writer on art)
- Release : 11 May 2024
- Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
- ISBN : 9780199394500
- Genre : Art
- Total Page : 449 pages
- Language : English
- PDF File Size : 13,7 Mb
If you're still pondering over how to secure a PDF or EPUB version of the book Restless Ambition by Cathy Curtis (Writer on art), don't worry! All you have to do is click the 'Get Book' buttons below to kick off your Download or Read Online journey. Just a friendly reminder: we don't upload or host the files ourselves.