Meredith Quill: Art Nerd

A realization I had: Peter references Jackson Pollock's paintings in GOTG. In 1988, when Peter was taken to space, Pollock had been dead for about 20 years, and I'm not sure your average eight-year-old boy is into deceased, alcoholic abstract expressionist artists. Since pretty much all of Peter's pop culture references are dated to before his abduction, this leads me to conclude that he knows about Jackson Pollock the same way he knows about 70's music: from his mother.

Was Meredith Quill a huge art nerd? Was she perhaps an artist herself? I'm imagining her putting canvases on her studio floor so that she and bby!Peter can drip paint on them just like Jackson Pollock, until they both have paint all over their clothes and hands and in their hair.