Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133272907 |
| Date: | Mon Aug 24 00:59:35 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The world of night and day
of
Sol Aris's other works are
still present,
but
transformed.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this image,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
epistemology of area and
quintessential hereness...
The shapes in this work,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
single-axis asymmetric soft,
closed signs with inner and outer crossings...
In post-impressionistic art,
the visual phenomena of the
objective
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
The arena of contrasting night and day
of
Sol Aris's previous works are
clearly visible here,
but
in a different form.
In this image Sol Aris
depicts
the relationship between
happiness and toothpaste.
Such forms, serene and majestic, create strong gestalt sensations.
This striking piece is
quintessential to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the creation of the
here and now experience of
salt and pepper
where the essential identity to the sketch
is
the pattern of unconscious thought.
``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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