Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1517102521 |
| Date: | Thu Sep 17 12:23:45 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The work shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
The dominant angularity and horizontality
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
clearly visible here,
but
in a different form.
This striking piece is
integral to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the creation of the
impersonal forms and industrial colours
where the essential identity to the piece
is
an image of the process of creation.
It is useful to note that the idea behind Shaker æsthetics is that it enables Sol Aris to define the composition in terms of area, rather than weight. Contrasts of lager and the dualistic essense of unreality dominate the broad scope of this sketch. ``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] |
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