Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393149091 |
| Date: | Sun Jul 12 18:55:27 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
This image is
an expression of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
dominant angularity and horizontality
where the essential identity to the work
is
the eternal or spiritual dimension and its
endless possibilities.
It is important to understand that the
major feature of abstract art
is that it enables the artist
to define form in terms of
dimensionality,
rather than weight.
In constructive colour theory,
the visual phenomena of the
external
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
``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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