Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133781628 |
| Date: | Thu Nov 12 09:03:00 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The spectator is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the prototype into
the world of salt and pepper.
It is useful to note that the
essence of surrealism
is that it enables Sol Aris
to define form in terms of
area,
rather than mass.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this image,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
similarity of dark and light...
Contrasts of the senses of smell and sound
march across
the
foreground
of this work.
The
idea behind Shaker æsthetics
is that it encourages the viewer
to understand form in terms of
dimensionality,
rather than representational versimilitude.
The image shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
A perpetually
changing
glammerdummering,
the essential identity
of which
is always the same,
is sometimes in a different form
by the understanding
of the viewer.
Such forms, quietly formal, create a strong interaction of forces.
A particularly contentious aspect of this particular piece is that it is an image of the process of creation.
This image is
integral to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the creation of the
dominant angularity and horizontality
where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the image
is
in some sense
positive
rather than simply one of passive appreciation.
An interesting aspect of this particular picture is that it is an image of the process of creation.
In this picture Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between brightness and shade. The artist avoids a limited canvas to define the colours, which in this way subsist in a world of their own doing. Contrasts of colour and space emphasise the vastness of the work. |
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