Sentences with phrase «pure art against»

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.

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As far as designing goes, this edit of Mohamed Salah's brilliant goal against Porto should be considered as pure art.

This is about their pure self - interest: the concern that someone who lives near the construction will vote against Hannon or Phillips because there is too much noise or inconvenience in eliminating deadly crossings or erecting state - of - the - art sound barriers — ones that will actually stop the noise.

These are his most purely mathematical works, yet even here it is precisely the careful hand - rendering and sense of laborious process coming up against the ideal of pure mathematical structure that makes them powerful art.

The specific brand of humor which inhabits her art results from rubbing up against the «pure air» that prevails in an art world unaccustomed to deal ¬ ing in certain «vulgarities.»

It is a measure of how much cultural prejudice there still is against the vulgar upstarts of the new world and how snobbishly we revere European art that it is still widely assumed that Mondrian, Kandinsky and other early 20th century abstract artists are somehow more serious, genuine and pure than Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman.