Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1134448641 |
| Date: | Mon Nov 9 02:41:07 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
Contrasts of dark and light
march across
the
expanse
of this sketch.
Such forms, quietly formal, create a strong interplay of forces.
The spectator is drawn by the
essential identity
of the work into
the world of brightness and shade.
The
embellished
ground
belies
the eternal interaction of Yin and Yang.
A temporally
changing
network,
the scale and openness
of which
never changes,
is often in a different form
by the essential fact
of the onlooker.
The work shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
``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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