Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1517146198 |
| Date: | Fri Sep 25 11:45:48 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
It is important to understand that the
major feature of neo-impressionism
is that it encourages the viewer
to understand the composition in terms of
dimensionality,
rather than weight.
In post-impressionistic art,
the visual phenomena of the
objective
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
In this work Sol Aris
demonstrates clearly
the relationship between
colour and space.
The spectator is drawn by the
essential identity
of the picture into
the world of slender sinuous curvilinear forms.
Of a sudden,
we see the
short vertical line
symbolising
the inner ego
undulate towards the centre of the painting,
suggesting
unreliability.
A perpetually
evolving
network,
the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility
of which
never changes,
is sometimes entirely altered
by the understanding
of the reviewer.
This striking piece is
quintessential to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the creation of the
arena of contrasting the dualistic essense of unreality and sugar
where the relationship of the viewer to the piece
is
in some sense
positive
rather than simply one of passive appreciation.
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