From Charlot, Perehudoff learned the age - old technique of fresco painting and developed
social realist imagery rendered in the monumental and reductive style of Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco.
Designers like Donald Deskey, Gilbert Rohde and Russel Wright experimented with new materials, including aluminum, bakelite, cork and linoleum while painters such as Burgoyne Diller, Charles Biederman and Werner Drewes redefined an American aesthetic that challenged the predominant representational
imagery of the
social realists like Ben Shahn, Thomas Hart Benton and Raphael Soyer.