The palette has been Kiefer's best expedient for acknowledging and justifying his art's roiling audacity.
They questioned the idea that some subjects were simply not relevant to painting, a question that had been hovering over art for some time, by the simple expedient of arguing that anything and everything was fair game.
He had loved black music from childhood, developed a strong empathy with its exponents and knew how to encourage the finest expression of their art, usually by the simple yet often overlooked expedient of setting their instincts free in a sympathetic environment.
General summaries are commonly organized by nation, a convenient expedient, because major collections are centred in great national museums and because folk art is often studied and promoted as part of the national heritage.
Despite the culture minister Ed Vaizey's insistence that the 30% cut in the Arts Council's budget is a temporary expedient, many of his Conservative colleagues consider any public funding of the arts a form of grand larceny.
Perhaps it's a question of inspiration: great art inspires more art, some equally great, some dreadful, some satirical, some expedient, some thrilling.
The method under examination will be scrutinized as to its suitability to provide adequate, expedient, and economical care for the insured persons, with general state-of-the-art medical knowledge taken into consideration.
By the simple expedient of inventing the world's sixth continent and putting people in it, he mastered the art of universality.
At a time of economic restraint there are legitimate debates to be had about replacement funding for the arts, but crimes against the environment are crimes against humanity, and oil money is an expedient too far.
