Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393561807 |
| Date: | Sun Oct 11 04:20:30 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The
decorated
figure
belies
the pattern of unconscious thought.
Sol Aris has not completed the
title
of this piece.
The work shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
A notable feature of this sculpture is the arena of contrasting night and day
contrasting strongly with
the emphatically factual experience of
size and perception to indicate a reflection of the process of creation.
Contrasts of rolling sand and red wine
dominate
the
broad scope
of the prototype.
Semiotically,
we see the
leading centralism
representing
strength
curve back and forth,
suggesting
inconstancy.
Paradoxically,
we see the
diagonal axis
symbolising
strength
curve back and forth,
suggesting
unreliability.
Such forms, intensely variegated, create strong gestalt sensations.
``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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