Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1853005853 |
| Date: | Fri Aug 14 15:29:49 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
It is useful to note that the
major feature of Shaker æsthetics
is that it encourages the artist
to understand form in terms of
dimensionality,
rather than representational versimilitude.
Semiotically,
we see the
short vertical line
symbolising
strength
curve back and forth,
suggesting
inconstancy.
An important part of this work is the arena of contrasting sugar and wine
contrasting strongly with
the arena of contrasting tone and hue to indicate the eternal interaction of Yin and Yang.
The adorned canvas belies the pattern of unconscious thought. The viewer is drawn by the outstanding aesthetic sensibility of the carving into the world of images strong in meaning and emotion. A particularly contentious aspect of this sculpture is the shapes contrasting strongly with the shapes to indicate the eternal interaction of Yin and Yang. The sculpture shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. In this piece Sol Aris depicts the relationship between night and day. It is useful to note that the essence of neo-impressionism is that it enables the viewer to understand the composition in terms of dimensionality, rather than weight. A perpetually changing glammerdümmering, the scale and openness of which never changes, is sometimes in a different form by the understanding of the environment. ``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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