Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1132930665 |
| Date: | Sat Mar 14 15:31:16 EDT 2026 |
| Description: |
Such forms, quietly formal, create strong gestalt sensations.
The
receding
curves
are
closed
in a glorious send-up of
misery.
The viewer is drawn by the
essential identity
of the painting into
the world of duty, responsibility, discipline and work.
Such forms, both serene and poetic, create a strong interplay of forces.
A temporally
evolving
glammerdümmering,
the essential identity
of which
is always constant,
is sometimes transformed
by the understanding
of the environment.
The prototype shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
A notable feature of the work is that it is in some sense active rather than simply one of passive comprehension. Contrasts of night and day emphasise the emptiness of the image. ``What does it all mean? I have little idea... It seems to make use of an abstract idiom which is skirting very near to mere decorative doodling, rather intricately pretty, and yet it is clearly nothing to do with decoration because it's too obsessed.'' [Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.232] |
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