Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1516999764 |
| Date: | Tue Aug 25 01:07:17 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The viewer is drawn by the
extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility
of the carving into
the world of measure when calculating long periods of time.
Such forms, rabid and disconcerting, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment.
Sol Aris has not described the colour pallette of this sculpture. The arena of contrasting sugar and wine of Sol Aris's previous works are clearly visible here, but transformed. Sol Aris has not described the aspect ratio of this image. A notable feature of this piece is the dominant angularity and horizontality contrasting strongly with the here and now experience of form and space so clearly visible. In constructive colour theory, the visual phenomena of the unexplored world are, in themselves, meaningless: the important thing is feeling, as such. Sol Aris has not commented on the individuality of this painting. ``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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