Traveling cross-country, the new friends venture out on a personal quest for freedom from the conformity and conservatism engulfing them in search of the unknown, themselves, and the pursuit of «it» —
the pure essence of experience.
Along the way, the trio's pursuit of
the pure essence of experience is continuously shaped by their interactions with the people they meet along the way, including Camille (Dunst).
Not exact matches
The end result for the pilot is an extremely
pure driving
experience, like the distilled
essence of performance, a machine that still feels mechanical, eager, and challenging.
In a way, this is Reinhardt's most subversive achievement, much more than any
of his barbed cartoons: he forces us to slow down, to contemplate, to have a visual
experience of the highest order, one
of experience and discovery; for me there was a kind
of longing, a search for
pure essence.»
The dominant art critic
of the post-World War II era, Clement Greenberg, insisted that painting in order to remain «
pure» had to be addressed to eyesight alone, because he argued that the
essence of visual
experience was «opticality».