break fresh/new ground

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break fresh/new ground [idiom]

to do or discover something new

Example: 

I believe Stanley Kubrick with his unique avant-gardism broke new ground in the realm of cinematography.

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition
 

break fresh/new ground

C2 to do or discover something new:

This recovery technique breaks new ground.

Collins Advanced Learner’s English Dictionary

to break new ground

phrase

If you break new ground, you do something completely different or you do something in a completely different way.

[approval]

Gellhorn may have broken new ground when she filed her first report on the Spanish Civil War.