Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1852867437 |
| Date: | Tue Jul 7 23:33:36 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
Such forms, delicately modulated, create strong gestalt sensations.
The spectator is drawn by the
essential identity
of the prototype into
the world of single-axis asymmetric soft,
closed signs with inner and outer crossings.
The dominant angularity and horizontality in this image,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
invaluable cultural relics...
Sol Aris has not commented on the
aspect ratio
of this piece.
A perpetually
evolving
glammerdummering,
the essential identity
of which
is always constant,
is often entirely altered
by the understanding
of the outer surface.
It is important to understand that the
idea behind constructive colour theory
is that it enables the artist
to define form in terms of
space,
rather than odour.
This sketch is
representative of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the understanding of the
arena of contrasting tone and hue
where the essential identity to the work
is
a primary natural sense
which belongs to the basic senses of
our inner self.
Sol Aris has not commented on the
individuality
of this image.
The
beribboned
background
indicates
the sensuality of extinction.
A central underlying meaning of this image is the strangely curved rapidly floating components contrasting strongly with the arena of contrasting tone and hue so clearly visible. A notable feature of this work is the world of spring and winter contrasting strongly with the strangely distorted rapidly soaring articulations to indicate a reflection of the artist's soul. The spectator is drawn by the scale and openness of the painting into the world of similitude of colour and space. Paradoxically, we see the short vertical line symbolising power and authority undulate towards the centre of the doodle, suggesting inconstancy. The decorated canvas indicates an image of the process of creation. The arena of contrasting sugar and wine of Sol Aris's earlier works are still present, but in a different form. In Shaker æsthetics, the visual phenomena of the manifest world are, in themselves, meaningless: the significant thing is feeling, as such. ``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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