Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393525515 |
| Date: | Mon Oct 5 12:46:38 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
Such forms, quietly formal, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment.
The artist uses
a rectangular grid
to contain the
colours, which therefore
stand alone.
In abstract art,
the visual phenomena of the
external
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
In this sculpture Sol Aris
depicts
the relationship between
summer and autumn.
The spectator is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the prototype into
the world of deprivations, inhibitions and poverty.
``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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