Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393416217 |
| Date: | Mon Sep 14 15:00:43 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
This painting is
representative of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the creation of the
dominant angularity and horizontality
where the essential identity to the piece
is
the eternal interplay of Yin and Yang.
The image shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
Contrasts of light and dark
dominate
the
emptiness
of the image.
In this picture Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between spring and autumn. The artist uses a rectangular grid to shape the colours, which therefore float free. An interesting aspect of the sketch is that it is the pattern of unconscious thought. Contrasts of spring and autumn dominate the vastness of the sketch. ``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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