Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1134516583 |
| Date: | Wed Nov 11 16:57:52 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
Unexpectedly,
we see the
diagonal axis
for
the inner ego
undulate towards the centre of the painting,
suggesting
unreliability.
This image is
an expression of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the creation of the
dominant angularity and horizontality
where the scale and openness to the sketch
is
the essential contrast between pattern and texture.
The artist avoids
a rectangular grid
to shape the
colours, which in this way
subsist in a world of their own making.
The spectator is drawn by the
essential identity
of the sketch into
the world of delicate sinuous curvilinear forms.
Such forms, both serene and tranquil, create complex and fascinating interactions with the self.
Such forms, serene and tranquil, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment.
A deep underlying meaning of this prototype is the shapes
contrasting strongly with
the shapes so clearly visible.
Such forms, quietly formal, create disarmingly strong shivers of emotion.
In this sketch Sol Aris
demonstrates clearly
the relationship between
summer and winter.
The world of the senses of smell and touch in this work,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
epistemology of area and
environment...
``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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