It consisted very largely of drawings from life by a selection of figurative painters of that time and was explicitly
intended to reassert the importance of a figurative and humanist art in the face of what Kitaj saw
as the increasing dominance of abstract,
minimalist and conceptual art.
Hesse, possessed of material ingenuity and an apparent naughty streak, took that ethos and pushed its outer limits, making works from latex, rubber, fibreglass and wire mesh, coagulating her materials not into pure form,
as the
Minimalists intended, but suggestively sensual abstract shapes.