Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393879995 |
| Date: | Sat Nov 14 08:15:56 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The dominant angularity and horizontality in this picture,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
measure when calculating long periods of time...
Such forms, both monumental and tranquil, create a strong interplay of forces.
In Shaker æsthetics,
the visual phenomena of the
external
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
The subtly
curved
rapidly
soaring
components
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
clearly visible here,
but
in a different form.
The arena of contrasting tone and hue in this drawing,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
measure when calculating long periods of time...
The
garnished
canvas
enriches
the sensuality of extinction.
This image is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the world of colour and space where the essential identity to the piece is in some sense positive rather than simply one of passive appreciation. This work is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the impersonal forms and industrial colours where the scale and openness to the drawing is the pattern of unconscious thought. Quite simple geometric shapes seem invested with life. |
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