"I see them as shapes, allowing an image to become an abstraction and for pure painting to take place."

These activities have kept the role of pure painting in his work to a minimum, and quite often to zero.

Guy de Lussigny's painting, pure and precise, conjures a poetic feeling.

The three participating in this elegant show are abstractionists who want nothing to interfere with the sensuous experience of pure painting.

He describes his technique as being concerned with "pure painting", rather than picture making.

This is the closest Ms. Reynolds comes to pure painting.

In a sense his painting was, to use an expression current in Cubist circles, 'pure' painting.

He is not an artist for whom the portrait is simply a convenient armature for adventures in pure painting.

A continuing debate among artists and critics is about whether pure abstract painting with no hint of anecdotal imagery is a spent genre.

From the photographs he derived the canvases, which he calls "pure abstract paintings."