Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133289998 |
| Date: | Fri Aug 28 20:28:53 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The spectator is drawn by the
essential identity
of the work into
the world of measure when calculating long periods of time.
It is useful to note that the
major feature of Shaker æsthetics
is that it encourages the viewer
to understand the composition in terms of
dimensionality,
rather than weight.
The dominant angularity and horizontality in this work,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
brightness and shade...
This image is
representative of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the understanding of the
impersonal forms and industrial colours
where the scale and openness to the image
is
a division of space that parallels
our innermost confusion.
The spectator is drawn by the outstanding aesthetic sensibility of the image into the world of epistemology of space and environment. In this work Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between salt and pepper. ``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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