But given all that, the work at Marian Goodman still feels like a decisive swing
toward pure painting.
Not exact matches
It's hard to compare any major city in the world in terms of
pure spectacle one sees in almost every direction they look there (such as looking
toward the Golden Gate Bridge during sunset, the Golden Gate Bridge as you pass under it by boat or the famed «
Painted Ladies» with downtown in the background).
In this manner, the medium is pushed from
pure form
toward function, perhaps from an old world where
painting was men's work, or into a more demanding new world where nothing is wasted.
The
pure paint gradually evolved to more closed forms and I gradually went back more and more
toward different kinds of structure in
paintings.
Many of these
paintings veer
toward pure abstraction.
Disappointed with «
pure» geometry and disinclined
toward organic abstraction, they began creating constructions derived from elements of
painting, sculpture, and architecture.