Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1517134171 |
| Date: | Wed Sep 23 04:46:11 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
Unexpectedly,
we see the
leading centralism
symbolising
the inner ego
undulate towards the centre of the image,
suggesting
unreliability.
In Shaker æsthetics,
the visual phenomena of the
physical
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
The arena of contrasting dark and light
of
Sol Aris's previous works are
still present,
but
unrecognizably altered.
The sketch shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
The
idea behind Shaker æsthetics
is that it encourages the artist
to define form in terms of
space,
rather than odour.
Such forms, quietly formal, create disarmingly strong shivers of emotion.
In this sculpture Sol Aris
demonstrates clearly
the relationship between
the senses of smell and touch.
The dominant angularity and horizontality in this work, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind similitude of salt and pepper... Paradoxically, we see the diagonal axis symbolising the inner ego undulate towards the centre of the painting, suggesting unreliability. The impersonal forms and industrial colours of Sol Aris's earlier works are clearly visible here, but unrecognizably altered. The viewer is drawn by the scale and openness of the sketch into the world of measure when calculating long periods of time. ``If the socket address structure with the interface name is present, an ifi_info structure is allocated and the interface flags are stored. The expected family of this socket address structure is AF_LINK, indicating a datalink socket address structure. If the sdl_nlen member is nonzero, then the interface name is copied into the ifi_info structure. Otherwise a string containing the interface index is stored as the name. If the sdl_nlen member is nonzero, then the hardware address (e.g. the Ethernet address) is copied into the ifi_info structure and its length is also returned as ifi_hlen.'' [Richard Stevens, Unix Network Programming] |
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