Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1852908793 |
| Date: | Fri Jul 24 09:42:40 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
In this image Sol Aris
demonstrates clearly
the relationship between
sugar and wine.
In Shaker æsthetics,
the visual phenomena of the
physical
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
The artist avoids
a limited canvas
to contain the
colours, which can by this means
subsist in a world of their own making.
The image shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
``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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