BBCNEWS HARDtalk June 4, 2024 04:35:00
Contemporary art development. and of course, you know, it's well known that people like matisse and gauguin, picasso, were inspired by art forms outside of the western canon — africa, japan, tahiti. and i think, with our work, what we wanted to do was challenge the hypocrisy of what we were experiencing. because at the same time we were being taught that the be all and end all of being an artist was this, you know, this wonderful sort of self—expression. and then we were being told, well, no, you can't express yourself in that way. and you certainly can't look outside the western canon of ...