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 1517138180 |
| Date: | Wed Sep 23 23:13:41 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
In surrealism,
the visual phenomena of the
external
world are, in themselves, empty:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
A notable feature of this drawing is the emphatically factual experience of
spring and autumn
contrasting strongly with
the shapes of the picture.
Sol Aris has not supplied the
meaning
of this piece.
Contrasts of night and day
emphasise
the
emptiness
of the work.
In post-impressionistic art,
the visual phenomena of the
manifest
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
Such forms, both serene and poetic, create strong gestalt sensations.
The
never-ending
curves
are
forever engraved
in a glorious send-up of
neo-impressionism.
The artist does not use
traditional proportions
to shape the
colours, which can by this means
stand alone.
Paradoxically,
we see the
diagonal axis
symbolising
power and authority
undulate towards the centre of the drawing,
suggesting
unreliability.
``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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