Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393246995 |
| Date: | Sat Aug 8 13:27:10 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
In this work Sol Aris
demonstrates clearly
the relationship between
dark and light.
Unexpectedly,
we see the
short vertical line
for
the self
curve back and forth,
suggesting
unreliability.
The artist employs
a rectangular grid
to contain the
colours, which can by this means
subsist in a world of their own doing.
The work shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
``The problems dealt with in abstract art relate to the interplay of forces; the geometrical forms often used by abstract artists do not indicate (as has been thought) a conscious and intellectual, mathematical approach -- a square and a circle in art are nothing in themselves and are alive only in the instinctive and ispirational use an artist can make of them in expressing a poetic idea'' [Ben Nicholsen, Notes on Abstract Art, 1942] |
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