Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133777197 |
| Date: | Thu Nov 12 05:38:40 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this image,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
duty, responsibility, discipline and work...
Semiotically,
we see the
short vertical line
representing
power and authority
curve back and forth,
suggesting
inconstancy.
It is useful to note that the
essence of Shaker æsthetics
is that it enables Sol Aris
to understand the composition in terms of
area,
rather than mass.
The
figured
figure
belies
the sensuality of intoxification.
A constantly
changing
glammerdummering,
the scale and openness
of which
never changes,
is sometimes transformed
by the perception
of the reviewer.
The artist avoids
a rectangular grid
to shape the
colours, which can by this means
float free.
``What does it all mean? I have little idea... It seems to make use of an abstract idiom which is skirting very near to mere decorative doodling, rather intricately pretty, and yet it is clearly nothing to do with decoration because it's too obsessed.'' [Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.232] |
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