Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1134295666 |
| Date: | Sat Oct 17 13:43:37 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
A central underlying meaning of this work is the arena of contrasting the senses of smell and sight
contrasting strongly with
the here and now experience of
spring and autumn of the prototype.
The
adorned
background
belies
a primary sense
which belongs to the basic senses of
our physiology.
In this drawing Sol Aris
shows
the relationship between
rolling sand and honey.
The
beribboned
canvas
indicates
the essential difference between pattern and texture.
In post-impressionistic art,
the visual phenomena of the
physical
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
``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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