But that was cruel, and he was responding to artistic convention, not to the actual children.
It reacts against historicism, artistic conventions and institutionalization of art.
The popular notion of black clothing is likely rooted in artistic convention.
Yet hasn't every radical break with artistic convention been thought shocking?
Top-left lighting is an artistic convention in which illustrations are produced so that the light appears to come from the top left of the picture.
Was he a product of his times or did he break with artistic convention?
Nor does the selection of work illustrate her contention that it represents a challenge to artistic conventions.
Certain artistic conventions, which over time became traditionalist, had been developed in Rome during the first decades of the 16th century.
The photographers here were certainly not unaffected by the artistic conventions of their time.
Since then, that urge has become an artistic convention.