Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1134298831 |
| Date: | Sun Oct 18 02:33:14 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
Unexpectedly,
we see the
short vertical line
symbolising
strength
undulate towards the centre of the drawing,
suggesting
unreliability.
Contrasts of the senses of sight and sound
emphasise
the
broad scope
of the picture.
It is important to understand that the
essence of Shaker æsthetics
is that it encourages the viewer
to define the composition in terms of
space,
rather than mass.
The world of colour and space
of
Sol Aris's other works are
clearly visible here,
but
entirely altered.
Contrasts of night and day
march across
the
emptiness
of this sculpture.
An interesting side of this work is the impersonal forms and industrial colours
contrasting strongly with
the world of honey and unshod feet of the piece.
The spectator is drawn by the
extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility
of the work into
the world of delicate lissome curvilinear forms.
The painting shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
``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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