Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133725291 |
| Date: | Tue Nov 10 07:05:49 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
In Shaker æsthetics,
the visual phenomena of the
manifest
world are, in themselves, empty:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
The artist uses
a limited canvas
to restrict the
colours, which therefore
subsist in a world of their own making.
The image shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
The spectator is drawn by the
extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility
of the drawing into
the world of measure when calculating long periods of time.
It is important to understand that the idea behind surrealism is that it encourages the viewer to understand the composition in terms of dimensionality, rather than odour. ``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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