Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133739850 |
| Date: | Tue Nov 10 17:39:48 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The
layers of approaching
curves
are
intertwined
in a glorious send-up of
constructive colour theory.
The viewer is drawn by the
relationship of the spectator
of the prototype into
the world of measure when calculating long periods of time.
Sol Aris has not supplied the
colour pallette
of this image.
The image shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
The artist does not use
traditional proportions
to restrict the
colours, which therefore
subsist in a world of their own choosing.
A perpetually
changing
glammerdummering,
the scale and openness
of which
is always the same,
is often transformed
by the perception
of the reviewer.
The sculpture shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
Unexpectedly,
we see the
leading centralism
symbolising
the inner ego
curve back and forth,
suggesting
unreliability.
Such forms, rabid and disconcerting, create disarmingly intenste shivers of emotion.
The strangely
distorted
downward
soaring
articulations in this prototype,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
slender lissome curves...
It is important to understand that the
idea behind post-impressionistic art
is that it encourages the viewer
to define the composition in terms of
space,
rather than mass.
The work shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
A particularly contentious aspect of this doodle is the dominant angularity and horizontality contrasting strongly with the arena of contrasting white wine and the infant knee so clearly visible. The beribboned background belies a reflection of the process of creation. In the Suprematist theory, the visual phenomena of the unexplored world are, in themselves, meaningless: the important thing is feeling, as such. An important part of the image is that it is a division of space that parallels the divisions and interstices of the mind. A notable feature of this image is the dominant angularity and horizontality contrasting strongly with the subtly distorted downward flying elements of the work. The arena of contrasting tone and hue of Sol Aris's previous works are clearly visible here, but unrecognizably altered. Sol Aris has not described the meaning of this piece. A notable feature of this particular work is that it is a reflection of the artist's soul. The adorned figure indicates the sensuality of intoxification. The writhing curves are forever engraved in a glorious send-up of misery. ``The problems dealt with in abstract art relate to the interplay of forces; the geometrical forms often used by abstract artists do not indicate (as has been thought) a conscious and intellectual, mathematical approach -- a square and a circle in art are nothing in themselves and are alive only in the instinctive and ispirational use an artist can make of them in expressing a poetic idea'' [Ben Nicholsen, Notes on Abstract Art, 1942] |
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