Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133150738 |
| Date: | Thu Jul 30 00:41:44 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
An important part of this work is the emphatically factual experience of
size and perception
contrasting strongly with
the here and now experience of
form and space of the sketch.
A central underlying meaning of the image is that it is the eternal interaction of Yin and Yang.
The work shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
The artist does not use
a limited canvas
to restrict the
colours, which therefore
float free.
``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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