![]() ![]() ![]() Artemisia struggled to decide – “shall I tell or shall I stay silent?”Īrtemisia did tell. ![]() During her late teens-in 16-a trusted tutor, hired by her father, raped her. From the time she could hold a drawing pencil or a paint brush, all Artemisia wanted to do was to paint, to create images on canvas, images that expressed the deep passions within herself and within the women she painted. Joy was first a playwright although in the book’s acknowledgments she states that Blood Water Paint is the tenth novel she has written and in fact, this novel began as a play with a world premiere production at Live Girls Theater in 2015.īlood Water Paint is based on the young adult life of the most famous WOMAN Italian Baroque painter, Artemisia Gentileschi. This debut novel by Joy McCullough is unforgettable. “She has to ask herself-and women have asked themselves this question for centuries-would she rather be suffocated slowly for the rest of her life, or die quickly trying to accomplish something?” ![]()
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