Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393104570 |
| Date: | Wed Jul 1 05:33:02 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
Contrasts of brightness and dark
dominate
the
vastness
of this work.
The artist uses
traditional proportions
to restrict the
colours, which therefore
stand alone.
The
ornamented
figure
belies
a division of space that parallels
the divisions and interstices of the mind.
The picture 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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