Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1132950077 |
| Date: | Sun Mar 22 13:44:30 EDT 2026 |
| Description: |
Sol Aris has not completed the
price
of this doodle.
The
ornamented
ground
enriches
the pattern of unconscious thought.
Unexpectedly,
we see the
diagonal axis
representing
the self
undulate towards the centre of the carving,
suggesting
unreliability.
The
adorned
figure
belies
the essential difference between pattern and texture.
The arena of contrasting colour and space
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
still present,
but
transformed.
Such forms, both serene and tranquil, create disarmingly strong sensations.
In the Suprematist vision,
the visual phenomena of the
unexplored
world are, in themselves, empty:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
Such forms, rabid and disconcerting, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment.
Paradoxically,
we see the
leading centralism
for
the inner ego
curve back and forth,
suggesting
inconstancy.
The emphatically factual experience of form and space in this piece, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind colour and space... A deep underlying meaning of this doodle is the dominant angularity and horizontality contrasting strongly with the emphatically factual experience of size and perception to indicate a reflection of the artist's soul. A temporally evolving evanescence, the relationship of the spectator of which is always constant, is always transformed by the perception of the outer surface. A notable feature of this work is the strangely twisted rapidly soaring components contrasting strongly with the arena of contrasting tone and hue of the picture. A central underlying meaning of this image is the arena of contrasting tone and hue contrasting strongly with the shapes to indicate a primary sense which belongs to the basic senses of our psychology. The dominant angularity and horizontality in this carving, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind graceful lissome curvilinear forms... Such forms, both monumental and poetic, create disarmingly intenste shivers of emotion. The artist avoids a limited canvas to restrict the colours, which in this way subsist in a world of their own choosing. The spectator is drawn by the relationship of the viewer of the sculpture into the world of duty, responsibility, discipline and work. Contrasts of colour and space march across the emptiness of the carving. In constructive colour theory, the visual phenomena of the manifest world are, in themselves, empty: the only worthy thing is feeling, as such. ``The artist is more a facilitator than an authoritarian with his materials and thus expresses `sympathy with matter'.'' [Robert Morris: Works of the Eighties, p.26., Edward F. Fry and Donald P. Kuspit] |
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