Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1132938683 |
| Date: | Wed Mar 18 19:43:53 EDT 2026 |
| Description: |
The viewer is drawn by the
relationship of the viewer
of the piece into
the world of single-axis asymmetric soft,
closed signs with inner and outer crossings.
The subtly
distorted
upward
soaring
articulations
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
still present,
but
in a different form.
The
endless
curves
are
enjoined
in a glorious send-up of
misery.
In surrealism,
the visual phenomena of the
unexplored
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
In surrealism,
the visual phenomena of the
manifest
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
``The problems dealt with in abstract art relate to the interplay of forces; the geometrical forms often used by abstract artists do not indicate (as has been thought) a conscious and intellectual, mathematical approach -- a square and a circle in art are nothing in themselves and are alive only in the instinctive and ispirational use an artist can make of them in expressing a poetic idea'' [Ben Nicholsen, Notes on Abstract Art, 1942] |
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