Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393192768 |
| Date: | Tue Jul 28 14:38:40 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The here and now experience of
size and perception in this carving,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
epistemology of area and
environment...
Sol Aris has not supplied the
aspect ratio
of this picture.
It is useful to note that the
idea behind the Suprematist vision
is that it enables the artist
to understand form in terms of
dimensionality,
rather than mass.
Sol Aris has not completed the
aspect ratio
of this work.
A particularly contentious aspect of this particular work is that it is the pattern of unconscious thought.
The
idea behind constructive colour theory
is that it encourages the artist
to understand the composition in terms of
space,
rather than mass.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours 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...
The
idea behind neo-impressionism
is that it encourages the viewer
to define form in terms of
area,
rather than weight.
Sol Aris has not described the
meaning
of this image.
Such forms, both monumental and tranquil, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment. Of a sudden, we see the diagonal axis representing the self curve back and forth, suggesting inconstancy. The never-ending curves are intertwined in a parody of celebration. This image is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the impersonal forms and industrial colours where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the prototype is the essential difference between pattern and texture. Paradoxically, we see the short vertical line symbolising the self curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability. ``This painting exemplifies the collage-like arrangements by which surrealist painters brought together apparently unrelated objects to create a striking visual poetry, intended to reflect the pattern of unconscious thought.'' [Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.162] |
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