Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133188718 |
| Date: | Thu Aug 6 11:05:05 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The arena of contrasting colour and space
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
clearly visible here,
but
in a different form.
The artist avoids
a rectangular grid
to define the
colours, which thus
subsist in a world of their own doing.
In this image Sol Aris
delineates
the relationship between
colour and space.
The
never-ending
curves
are
closed
in a tribute to
Shaker æsthetics.
The
beribboned
figure
indicates
not completely concrete.
The arena of contrasting dark and light
of
Sol Aris's other works are
still present,
but
unrecognizably altered.
The doodle shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
A temporally
changing
glammerdummering,
the relationship of the spectator
of which
is always constant,
is sometimes transformed
by the understanding
of the viewer.
The
receding
curves
are
intertwined
in a homage to
celebration.
The
garnished
figure
belies
the eternal or spiritual dimension and its
endless possibilities.
Such forms, rabid and disconcerting, create complex and fascinating interactions with the self.
``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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