Family Studio

Grace Hartigan was a leading abstract painter. She experimented with a large-scale, gestural style of Abstract Expressionism. Abstract art tries to create meaning through the use of shapes, colors, lines, and textures that are assembled in a way that does not represent the world as we see it.  “Expressionist” artists use line, color, shape, and texture to show their feelings about a subject instead of representing the subject as it appears. Some Abstract Expressionist artists created paintings that look very rugged and spontaneous, even when they were carefully planned.