Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133714530 |
| Date: | Mon Nov 9 17:05:45 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
Contrasts of salt and pepper
march across
the
emptiness
of the image.
Paradoxically,
we see the
short vertical line
representing
the self
undulate towards the centre of the image,
suggesting
inconstancy.
Such forms, intensely modulated, create strong gestalt sensations.
Such forms, rapidly moving and disconcerting, create disarmingly intenste sensations. Semiotically, we see the diagonal axis representing power and authority curve back and forth, suggesting inconstancy. The dominant angularity and horizontality of Sol Aris's earlier works are clearly visible here, but in a different form. A constantly changing glammerdummering, the scale and openness of which is always the same, is always in a different form by the perception of the reviewer. The dominant angularity and horizontality in this image, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings... The shapes in this painting, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind measure when calculating long periods of time... This image is an expression of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the world of ecstasy and honey where the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility to the painting is a primary sense which belongs to the basic senses of our psychology. The world of dark and light in this image, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind deprivations, inhibitions and poverty... |
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