Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393182218 |
| Date: | Sat Jul 25 11:30:02 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The artist avoids
a rectangular grid
to define the
colours, which therefore
stand alone.
Paradoxically,
we see the
short vertical line
symbolising
power and authority
curve back and forth,
suggesting
unreliability.
The artist employs
a limited canvas
to define the
colours, which thus
subsist in a world of their own doing.
It is useful to note that the
idea behind abstract art
is that it encourages the artist
to understand the composition in terms of
space,
rather than weight.
``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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