Performance allows artists to confront their audience directly, challenge long held stereotypes, and bring up current issues, often in an emotionally charged manner.

The atmosphere and environment offer an ideal situation for creative growth and experimentation and encourage artists to confront new challenges.

Not political artists who want Western attitudes toward the rest of the world confronted.

When an artist confronts our sense of propriety, propriety is supposed to bark back.

The artists living in Yuanmingyuan confronted this stronghold of the market economy on a daily basis, and most were disgusted by this environment.

Some younger artists who are not haunted by memories of prolonged past persecutions are confronting the crackdown with imagination.

If her encrusted objects are not particularly pretty, her paintings sugggest an artist confronting nature on its own, sometimes messy, mostly mysterious terms.

Here, the artists confront themselves, literally or metaphorically.

Mr. Brown said that the show tried to demonstrate, through Goya's work, how the artist confronted old age, health, exile and family conflict.

The responsible artist knows this power as his, and confronts the surrounding world with it.