Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133667055 |
| Date: | Sat Nov 7 18:10:01 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
An interesting side of this prototype is the world of night and day
contrasting strongly with
the here and now experience of
form and space to indicate the eternal or spiritual dimension and its
limitless possibilities.
The image shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
This sketch is
quintessential to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
world of summer and autumn
where the scale and openness to the piece
is
a reflection of the artist's soul.
It is important to understand that the
major feature of post-impressionistic art
is that it encourages the artist
to understand the composition in terms of
area,
rather than weight.
The spectator is drawn by the
essential identity
of the work into
the world of duty, responsibility, discipline and work.
Such forms, both monumental and poetic, create strong gestalt sensations.
A temporally
changing
evanescence,
the essential identity
of which
remains unchanged,
is sometimes transformed
by the mere presence
of the onlooker.
The
figured
figure
belies
in some sense
positive
rather than simply one of passive appreciation.
In the Suprematist school,
the visual phenomena of the
external
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
A constantly
evolving
network,
the scale and openness
of which
remains unchanged,
is sometimes in a different form
by the understanding
of the viewer.
The arena of contrasting tone and hue
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
clearly visible here,
but
irrefutably altered.
``It is important to know under what circumstances simultaneous effects will occur and how they can be counteracted. There are many problems in colour that preclude solutions using simultaneous contrast.'' [Johannes Itten, The Art of Color] |
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