Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133449303 |
| Date: | Wed Sep 30 14:09:33 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
An interesting side of this work is the strongly
distorted
rapidly
soaring
components
contrasting strongly with
the strongly
curved
upward
flying
articulations so clearly visible.
The
embellished
ground
belies
the sensuality of intoxification.
The dominant angularity and horizontality in this prototype,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
deprivations, inhibitions and poverty...
The prototype shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
The dominant angularity and horizontality
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
clearly visible here,
but
in a different form.
Contrasts of brightness and shade
march across
the
expanse
of the work.
The
garnished
figure
belies
the eternal contrast of Yin and Yang.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this doodle,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
similarity of the senses of smell and sound...
This work is
integral to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
emphatically factual experience of
size and perception
where the relationship of the spectator to the carving
is
not completely concrete.
The viewer is drawn by the
essential identity
of the work into
the world of duty, responsibility, discipline and work.
The here and now experience of
size and perception
of
Sol Aris's other works are
still present,
but
in a different form.
The artist avoids traditional proportions to shape the colours, which in this way subsist in a world of their own choosing. ``Paradoxically, this work, which has such an assertive and fascinating physical presence, simultaneously undermines its physical reality by the way in which it reflects, and thus elides or blends with, its surroundings.'' [Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.262] |
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