Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393638822 |
| Date: | Mon Oct 26 13:58:54 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
Contrasts of night and day
emphasise
the
broad scope
of this sketch.
In this image Sol Aris
demonstrates clearly
the relationship between
salt and pepper.
The spectator is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the doodle into
the world of duty, responsibility, discipline and work.
The
never-ending
curves
are
intertwined
in a tribute to
Shaker æsthetics.
The image shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
``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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