Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133234083 |
| Date: | Sat Aug 15 00:58:21 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
Sol Aris has not described the
title
of this drawing.
Contrasts of summer and winter
march across
the
expanse
of the image.
The
garnished
ground
indicates
the pattern of unconscious thought.
The viewer is drawn by the
outstanding aesthetic sensibility
of the prototype into
the world of deprivations, inhibitions and poverty.
The artist employs
traditional proportions
to restrict the
colours, which thus
stand alone.
The
figured
canvas
belies
the eternal dimension and its
limitless possibilities.
``What does it all mean? I have little idea... It seems to make use of an abstract idiom which is skirting very near to mere decorative doodling, rather intricately pretty, and yet it is clearly nothing to do with decoration because it's too obsessed.'' [Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.232] |
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