Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393130523 |
| Date: | Tue Jul 7 14:01:28 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
In surrealism,
the visual phenomena of the
manifest
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
Contrasts of the senses of sight and sound
march across
the
expanse
of the sketch.
The strongly
stretched
upward
flying
components
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
still present,
but
transformed.
The spectator is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the work into
the world of images rich
in insight and emotion.
``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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