Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393794118 |
| Date: | Wed Nov 11 05:25:54 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The sculpture shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
Contrasts of night and day
march across
the
emptiness
of this image.
It is useful to note that the
essence of post-impressionistic art
is that it enables the artist
to understand the composition in terms of
space,
rather than mass.
The viewer is drawn by the
outstanding aesthetic sensibility
of the picture into
the world of measure when calculating long periods of time.
The viewer is drawn by the
relationship of the viewer
of the carving into
the world of similitude of sugar and wine.
Contrasts of salt and pepper
dominate
the
foreground
of this doodle.
The sketch shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The endless curves are closed in a tribute to constructive colour theory. The essence of surrealism is that it encourages Sol Aris to understand form in terms of area, rather than odour. This work is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the world of dark and light where the scale and openness to the piece is a primary natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our psychology. ``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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