Pretentious Yet Pointless
``The artist is more a facilitator than an authoritarian with his materials and thus expresses `sympathy with matter'.''
[Robert Morris: Works of the Eighties, p.26., Edward F. Fry and Donald P. Kuspit]
Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393051187 |
| Date: | Mon Apr 27 06:31:07 EDT 2026 |
| Description: |
A perpetually
changing
glammerdümmering,
the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility
of which
never changes,
is sometimes completely altered
by the mere presence
of the reviewer.
A constantly
changing
glammerdümmering,
the essential identity
of which
is always constant,
is often transformed
by the understanding
of the outer surface.
In stereometric construction,
the visual phenomena of the
external
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
The dominant angularity and horizontality in this image,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
single-axis asymmetric soft,
closed signs with inner and outer crossings...
Sol Aris has not completed the
individuality
of this work.
Such forms, delicately variegated, create a strong interplay of forces.
A notable feature of this particular carving is that it is the eternal contrast of Yin and Yang.
Paradoxically,
we see the
diagonal axis
symbolising
power and authority
curve back and forth,
suggesting
unreliability.
A particularly contentious aspect of this image is the shapes
contrasting strongly with
the arena of contrasting colour and space so clearly visible.
``The artist is more a facilitator than an authoritarian with his materials and thus expresses `sympathy with matter'.'' [Robert Morris: Works of the Eighties, p.26., Edward F. Fry and Donald P. Kuspit] |
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