The 86-year-old artist fought art world prejudice just to brighten your day.
"A court case used to be an imposing obstacle for an artist's growth, a setback artists fought for their lives to overcome, but in 2017, assault and battery cases don't seem as damaging," he wrote.
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In Bonnat, Toulouse-Lautrec encountered an artist who fought vehemently against deviation from academic rules, condemned the slapdash approach of the Impressionists, and judged Toulouse-Lautrec's drawing "atrocious".
This year, however, a swarm of scientists, researchers, and artists fought back, and we were consistently blown away by the new territories being charted in the field of audible art.
But, she went on, "one of the freedoms that early feminist artists fought for was freedom from the expectation that a woman makes art about being a woman".
A time line in the show's final gallery extends to 2013 — the year that Trayvon Martin's killer was acquitted and the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act — to remind us that the battle these artists fought in remains to be won.
The intertwining of art and money has even been part of the positive character of the modern age, when artists fought free of princely and church commissions, and began to paint pictures intended for sale in a free market of collectors.
"Polish reggae artists fought for freedom," he continues.
And Kehlani's self-released 2015 debut You Should Be Here won her a deserved Grammy nomination, but despite the quality of singles such as 24/7, simultaneously heartbreaking and comforting in light of the singer's own suicide attempt in March, people treated her less as an artist to fight for, à la Ocean, and more like a gossip blog punchline.
