Despite the
idea that a woman artist could literally have invented abstract painting, over the course
of art history Klint's name has been all but scrapped from the record
of abstract art, which has been cast, however falsely, as a genre driven by
machismo and muscle.
When the August 1949 issue
of LIFE magazine rhetorically asked the American public whether Jackson Pollock was «the greatest living painter in the United States,» simple, all - American
machismo was the hook, selling the American public on the
idea that Abstract Expressionism embodied the triumph
of the individual male spirit.