Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393451032 |
| Date: | Sun Sep 20 11:17:39 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
This work is
representative of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
arena of contrasting toothpaste and beer
where the essential identity to the work
is
not completely concrete.
In surrealism,
the visual phenomena of the
objective
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
The
figured
canvas
belies
the essential difference between pattern and texture.
The
embellished
canvas
belies
a division of space that parallels
the divisions and interstices of the mind.
The artist does not use
a rectangular grid
to shape the
colours, which in this way
float free.
``Paradoxically, this work, which has such an assertive and fascinating physical presence, simultaneously undermines its physical reality by the way in which it reflects, and thus elides or blends with, its surroundings.'' [Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.262] |
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