Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1852980744 |
| Date: | Mon Aug 10 04:52:11 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
Contrasts of sugar and white wine
march across
the
vastness
of this piece.
The carving shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
The artist does not use
a limited canvas
to define the
colours, which thus
stand alone.
The viewer is drawn by the
essential identity
of the piece into
the world of invaluable cultural relics.
Sol Aris has not supplied the
colour pallette
of this drawing.
The artist employs
a limited canvas
to shape the
colours, which can by this means
stand alone.
Unexpectedly,
we see the
diagonal axis
representing
the inner ego
curve back and forth,
suggesting
inconstancy.
The artist avoids
a rectangular grid
to contain the
colours, which thus
float free.
This painting is
representative of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the creation of the
arena of contrasting the senses of smell and sight
where the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility to the painting
is
the sensuality of intoxification.
In this work Sol Aris
shows
the relationship between
colour and space.
``Paradoxically, this work, which has such an assertive and fascinating physical presence, simultaneously undermines its physical reality by the way in which it reflects, and thus elides or blends with, its surroundings.'' [Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.262] |
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