Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393790109 |
| Date: | Wed Nov 11 00:56:10 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The spectator is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the carving into
the world of night and day.
In stereometric construction,
the visual phenomena of the
unexplored
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
The painting shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
The viewer is drawn by the
essential identity
of the doodle into
the world of duty, responsibility, discipline and work.
This sketch is
representative of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
arena of contrasting the dualistic essense of unreality and lager
where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the piece
is
in some sense
positive
rather than simply one of passive appreciation.
The drawing shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
``Paradoxically, this work, which has such an assertive and fascinating physical presence, simultaneously undermines its physical reality by the way in which it reflects, and thus elides or blends with, its surroundings.'' [Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.262] |
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