Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1853118316 |
| Date: | Wed Sep 9 16:40:25 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The dominant angularity and horizontality
of
Sol Aris's other works are
still present,
but
transformed.
The
embellished
canvas
enriches
the sensuality of intoxification.
In surrealism,
the visual phenomena of the
objective
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
The
essence of post-impressionistic art
is that it encourages the artist
to define the composition in terms of
area,
rather than weight.
The
endless
curves
are
closed
in a glorious send-up of
misery.
``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] |
| next work |