Sentences with phrase «pure essence of painting»

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In a sense, his best known works — the «multiforms» and his other signature paintings — are, in essence, the same expression, albeit one of purer (or less concrete or definable, depending on your interpretation) means, which is that of the same «basic human emotions,» as his earlier surrealistic mythological paintings.

During the rise of modern painting, flatness was considered a virtue, a quality denoting the pure essence of the medium.

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».

These paintings, consisting of elaborate and fluid swirls of paint applied in luminous hues, are pure and simplified expressions of light; the essence of Delaney's art.