Sentences with phrase «embodying pure painting»

Ironically, those earlier works were theorized as embodying pure painting, supposedly stripped of extraneous worldly concerns.

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Her pure abstract paintings call to mind the stained canvases of the Color Field artists, but her work embodies a unique elegance that differentiates it from that of her contemporaries.

Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Adolph Gottlieb, 1968, p. 21) The immediate intensity of the inky red and black orb is mirrored by the saturated blue explosion that embodies the title of Red and Blue, resulting in an enduring painting of pure optical brilliance.