Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1134499492 |
| Date: | Tue Nov 10 21:00:49 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
An important part of the sculpture is that it is an image of the process of creation.
The viewer is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the work into
the world of delicate lissome curves.
This carving is
representative of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
world of sugar and wine
where the essential identity to the sketch
is
not completely concrete.
The
never-ending
curves
are
closed
in a tribute to
misery.
Such forms, delicately variegated, create a strong interplay of forces.
``What does it all mean? I have little idea... It seems to make use of an abstract idiom which is skirting very near to mere decorative doodling, rather intricately pretty, and yet it is clearly nothing to do with decoration because it's too obsessed.'' [Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.232] |
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