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oth a value judgment and a description of a natural state, this image might be classified as a pure abstraction. By strict definition, purity means something is unmixed or uncontaminated, and further implies this condition is a desirable and idealized attribute. Immanuel Kant posited purity in an intellectual realm, characterized by its intuitive qualities. Art criticism has a long history of attempting to define purity within a given medium. To be avoided in this context, is the mixing of different types of media into combinations ignoring individual pure identities.
“All the classical genres are now ridiculous in their rigorous purity.” - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
