Recent developments suggest a quietly burgeoning trend towards making a greater effort to conceal commercial interests behind a veneer
of pure art in the form of performance.
In this context Mr Stella seems to be involved in a rearguard action, defending the
values of pure art against the barbarians who insist on dragging it from the museum and out into the street where it can engage with real life.
These elegant drawings, which have «the same flow of movement, the same serene power as his stones,» to quote Gilbert Seldes, should transport whoever stands within these hallowed halls, to a
place of pure art.
This harmony of vision and image, of seeing and the thing seen, could be construed as a formalist goal of the kind that implies an
ideal of pure art.
«Suprematism is the
rediscovery of pure art, which, in the course of time, had become obscured by the accumulation of «things.»