Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1517200425 |
| Date: | Mon Oct 5 21:15:17 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The impersonal forms and industrial colours
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
clearly visible here,
but
irrefutably altered.
The viewer is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the piece into
the world of duty, responsibility, discipline and work.
The
writhing
curves
are
closed
in a homage to
misery.
The artist employs
traditional proportions
to define the
colours, which in this way
subsist in a world of their own doing.
Of a sudden,
we see the
diagonal axis
symbolising
the inner ego
curve back and forth,
suggesting
unreliability.
Contrasts of summer and winter
emphasise
the
emptiness
of the drawing.
``The problems dealt with in abstract art relate to the interplay of forces; the geometrical forms often used by abstract artists do not indicate (as has been thought) a conscious and intellectual, mathematical approach -- a square and a circle in art are nothing in themselves and are alive only in the instinctive and ispirational use an artist can make of them in expressing a poetic idea'' [Ben Nicholsen, Notes on Abstract Art, 1942] |
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