Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133425038 |
| Date: | Fri Sep 25 06:31:34 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
In surrealism,
the visual phenomena of the
unexplored
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
In this doodle Sol Aris
demonstrates clearly
the relationship between
night and day.
The
idea behind abstract art
is that it enables the viewer
to understand the composition in terms of
space,
rather than mass.
The arena of contrasting tone and hue
of
Sol Aris's other works are
still present,
but
transformed.
Sol Aris has not completed the
title
of this picture.
This striking piece is
an expression of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
world of night and day
where the scale and openness to the work
is
the essential contrast between pattern and texture.
The world of colour and space in this work,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
the senses of smell and sound...
The artist uses
a limited canvas
to contain the
colours, which thus
stand alone.
It is important to understand that the
essence of post-impressionistic art
is that it enables the viewer
to understand the composition in terms of
dimensionality,
rather than weight.
``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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