Pretentious Yet Pointless
``The artist is more a facilitator than an authoritarian with his materials and thus expresses `sympathy with matter'.''
[Robert Morris: Works of the Eighties, p.26., Edward F. Fry and Donald P. Kuspit]
Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1517033735 |
| Date: | Thu Sep 3 18:29:27 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
Such forms, both monumental and tranquil, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment.
A particularly contentious aspect of this carving is the dominant angularity and horizontality
contrasting strongly with
the arena of contrasting tone and hue so clearly visible.
Sol Aris has not completed the
price
of this carving.
This striking piece is
an expression of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the understanding of the
strongly
contorted
upward
floating
elements
where the scale and openness to the piece
is
in some sense
positive
rather than simply one of passive appreciation.
``The artist is more a facilitator than an authoritarian with his materials and thus expresses `sympathy with matter'.'' [Robert Morris: Works of the Eighties, p.26., Edward F. Fry and Donald P. Kuspit] |
| next work |