Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1853049530 |
| Date: | Sun Aug 23 08:35:06 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
A central underlying meaning of this particular work is that it is the essential difference between pattern and texture.
In stereometric construction,
the visual phenomena of the
unexplored
world are, in themselves, empty:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
The spectator is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the work into
the world of the senses of smell and taste.
The arena of contrasting tone and hue in this picture,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
delicate lissome curves...
The shapes in this picture,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
similarity of dark and light...
Contrasts of dark and light
march across
the
foreground
of this drawing.
A constantly
changing
glammerdümmering,
the scale and openness
of which
never changes,
is always completely altered
by the essential fact
of the viewer.
``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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