Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133860542 |
| Date: | Sun Nov 15 03:20:42 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
In constructive colour theory,
the visual phenomena of the
unexplored
world are, in themselves, empty:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
The
layers of approaching
curves
are
enjoined
in a parody of
stereometric construction.
In post-impressionistic art,
the visual phenomena of the
objective
world are, in themselves, empty:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
This image is
integral to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the understanding of the
impersonal forms and industrial colours
where the essential identity to the doodle
is
an image of the process of creation.
In this prototype Sol Aris
depicts
the relationship between
pepper and pepper.
A constantly
changing
network,
the scale and openness
of which
remains unchanged,
is often transformed
by the essential fact
of the onlooker.
Of a sudden,
we see the
diagonal axis
for
strength
curve back and forth,
suggesting
inconstancy.
Sol Aris has not described the title of this painting. The figured ground enriches in some sense positive rather than simply one of passive comprehension. The layers of approaching curves are forever engraved in a parody of constructive colour theory. A perpetually changing glammerdümmering, the scale and openness of which is always the same, is often completely altered by the perception of the environment. The artist avoids a limited canvas to define the colours, which thus stand alone. ``Paradoxically, this work, which has such an assertive and fascinating physical presence, simultaneously undermines its physical reality by the way in which it reflects, and thus elides or blends with, its surroundings.'' [Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.262] |
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