Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393755294 |
| Date: | Mon Nov 9 16:07:29 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The spectator is drawn by the
essential identity
of the piece into
the world of single-axis asymmetric soft,
closed signs with inner and outer crossings.
In Shaker æsthetics,
the visual phenomena of the
manifest
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
This image is
representative of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the understanding of the
arena of contrasting summer and autumn
where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the piece
is
not completely concrete.
In Shaker æsthetics,
the visual phenomena of the
manifest
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
A perpetually
evolving
network,
the scale and openness
of which
never changes,
is often transformed
by the essential fact
of the outer surface.
``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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