Pretentious Yet Pointless
``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]
Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133722970 |
| Date: | Tue Nov 10 05:07:28 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
Paradoxically,
we see the
diagonal axis
representing
the self
curve back and forth,
suggesting
unreliability.
In this picture Sol Aris
delineates
the relationship between
sugar and wine.
The subtly
distorted
upward
reaching
elements in this work,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
delicate lissome curvilinear forms...
The arena of contrasting tone and hue in this image,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
images strong
in meaning and emotion...
A deep underlying meaning of this work is the emphatically factual experience of
size and perception
contrasting strongly with
the arena of contrasting dark and light to indicate in some sense
positive
rather than simply one of passive appreciation.
The artist employs
a limited canvas
to restrict the
colours, which thus
subsist in a world of their own doing.
``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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