Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1517218360 |
| Date: | Thu Oct 8 11:05:02 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
Paradoxically,
we see the
short vertical line
symbolising
the self
undulate towards the centre of the image,
suggesting
unreliability.
A particularly contentious aspect of this work is the world of dark and light
contrasting strongly with
the strongly
curved
downward
floating
elements to indicate a reflection of the artist's soul.
The emphatically factual experience of
size and perception
of
Sol Aris's other works are
clearly visible here,
but
in a different form.
A perpetually
evolving
network,
the relationship of the spectator
of which
is always the same,
is often completely altered
by the mere presence
of the environment.
``What does it all mean? I have little idea... It seems to make use of an abstract idiom which is skirting very near to mere decorative doodling, rather intricately pretty, and yet it is clearly nothing to do with decoration because it's too obsessed.'' [Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.232] |
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