Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1134536839 |
| Date: | Thu Nov 12 09:23:11 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The gently
distorted
downward
floating
elements
of
Sol Aris's other works are
still present,
but
transformed.
In post-impressionistic art,
the visual phenomena of the
unexplored
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
The
receding
curves
are
forever engraved
in a tribute to
celebration.
The
figured
canvas
enriches
the sensuality of extinction.
This picture is
an expression of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the understanding of the
here and now experience of
form and space
where the relationship of the spectator to the piece
is
a primary sense
which belongs to the basic senses of
our physiology.
A constantly
changing
network,
the outstanding aesthetic sensibility
of which
never changes,
is sometimes transformed
by the essential fact
of the environment.
The world of honey and pepper in this piece,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
images strong
in meaning and emotive power...
The image 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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