Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393306075 |
| Date: | Wed Aug 19 23:25:07 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
Such forms, quietly formal, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment.
The painting shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
It is useful to note that the
major feature of constructive colour theory
is that it enables the artist
to define form in terms of
area,
rather than weight.
Of a sudden, we see the diagonal axis symbolising strength undulate towards the centre of the sketch, suggesting inconstancy. The artist uses a limited canvas to restrict the colours, which thus subsist in a world of their own choosing. The arena of contrasting the dualistic essense of unreality and the joy of the flying sperm whale in this carving, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings... ``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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