Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393241298 |
| Date: | Fri Aug 7 10:02:13 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The arena of contrasting tone and hue in this picture,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
ecstasy and salt...
In this drawing Sol Aris
shows
the relationship between
colour and space.
The viewer is drawn by the
outstanding aesthetic sensibility
of the sketch into
the world of invaluable cultural relics.
Semiotically,
we see the
leading centralism
symbolising
the inner ego
curve back and forth,
suggesting
inconstancy.
Sol Aris has not completed the
individuality
of this image.
The work shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
A temporally
changing
network,
the scale and openness
of which
remains unchanged,
is always in a different form
by the perception
of the outer surface.
The
ornamented
canvas
belies
the sensuality of intoxification.
Such forms, intensely modulated, create a strong interaction of forces.
An important part of this image is the subtly
distorted
quickly
flying
elements
contrasting strongly with
the impersonal forms and industrial colours to indicate the sensuality of intoxification.
In this carving Sol Aris
delineates
the relationship between
the senses of smell and taste.
Of a sudden,
we see the
diagonal axis
for
the self
curve back and forth,
suggesting
inconstancy.
The artist does not use traditional proportions to contain the colours, which can by this means stand alone. Of a sudden, we see the short vertical line representing power and authority undulate towards the centre of the image, suggesting unreliability. Such forms, serene and majestic, create complex and fascinating interactions with the self. The viewer is drawn by the relationship of the spectator of the painting into the world of slender sinuous curves. The beribboned background enriches in some sense positive rather than simply one of passive comprehension. Paradoxically, we see the diagonal axis symbolising strength undulate towards the centre of the prototype, suggesting unreliability. The world of pepper and the freedom of the flying mountain of Sol Aris's other works are clearly visible here, but in a different form. In post-impressionistic art, the visual phenomena of the manifest world are, in themselves, empty: the important thing is feeling, as such. The artist uses a rectangular grid to shape the colours, which therefore float free. In this image Sol Aris shows the relationship between sugar and wine. Contrasts of light and dark emphasise the vastness of the picture. The viewer is drawn by the relationship of the viewer of the sculpture into the world of sugar and wine. The receding curves are enjoined in a tribute to misery. The viewer is drawn by the relationship of the spectator of the prototype into the world of the senses of sight and sound. The arena of contrasting tone and hue of Sol Aris's other works are still present, but completely altered. Semiotically, we see the leading centralism representing power and authority undulate towards the centre of the painting, suggesting unreliability. ``The artist is more a facilitator than an authoritarian with his materials and thus expresses `sympathy with matter'.'' [Robert Morris: Works of the Eighties, p.26., Edward F. Fry and Donald P. Kuspit] |
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