Sentences with phrase «pursue figurative subject»
In Mr. Katz's bathroom is a series of black - and - white photographs of New York City life by Rudy Burckhardt, the Swiss filmmaker and an ardent supporter of Mr. Katz in the 1950s, when he was scorned for daring to pursue figurative subject matter during the reign of Abstract Expressionism.
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At a time during the Civil Rights movement when African American artists were expected by many to create figurative work explicitly addressing racial subject matter, Gilliam persisted in pursuing the development of a new formal language that celebrated the cultivation and expression of the individual voice and the power of non-objective art to transcend cultural and political boundaries.