Pretentious Yet Pointless
``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]
Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1132968645 |
| Date: | Sat Mar 28 10:59:01 EDT 2026 |
| Description: |
Paradoxically,
we see the
short vertical line
representing
strength
undulate towards the centre of the work,
suggesting
inconstancy.
A temporally
evolving
glammerdummering,
the scale and openness
of which
never changes,
is sometimes transformed
by the mere presence
of the viewer.
The subtly
stretched
rapidly
reaching
components
of
Sol Aris's other works are
still present,
but
transformed.
This image is
quintessential to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
strangely
twisted
rapidly
soaring
articulations
where the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility to the image
is
in some sense
positive
rather than simply one of passive comprehension.
``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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