Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393506103 |
| Date: | Fri Oct 2 03:21:37 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
A notable feature of this painting is the impersonal forms and industrial colours
contrasting strongly with
the world of sugar and wine to indicate a reflection of the artist's soul.
In post-impressionistic art,
the visual phenomena of the
external
world are, in themselves, empty:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
This striking piece is
an expression of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the understanding of the
here and now experience of
light and shade
where the essential identity to the piece
is
the sensuality of intoxification.
``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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