Both the artist and the donor, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, rejected this idea because doors would not be suitable for a memorial.

Some artists who studied in Europe rejected Chinese painting; others tried to combine the best of both traditions.

Both artists rejected academic restraints to produce abstract art derived from nature and the imagination.

They include "a new focus and a new urgency," as artists reject "conventional assumptions in favor of trying to reconstruct the figure in different terms."

But he was one of the artists subsequently rejected for further grants and the fellowship was retracted because of the content of his work.

Both artist and curator would undoubtedly reject the idea that darker equals more serious.

Probably not, and if they had, Chinese artists would certainly have rejected them as the work of barbarians.

Tens of foot-high stacks of finished pages lay on every surface, covered with fabrics from bolts the artist had rejected as the wrong blues.

Of course any artist who has his work rejected thinks it's a mistake.

A heated debate ensued, in which several artists rejected the suggestion.