Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1853126545 |
| Date: | Fri Sep 11 06:56:36 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
In this piece Sol Aris
delineates
the relationship between
brightness and dark.
In Shaker æsthetics,
the visual phenomena of the
physical
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
This sculpture is
representative of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
emphatically factual experience of
size and perception
where the essential identity to the image
is
a natural sense
which belongs to the basic senses of
our very being.
In constructive colour theory,
the visual phenomena of the
objective
world are, in themselves, empty:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
Contrasts of dark and light
march across
the
foreground
of this prototype.
The sculpture shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
The world of brightness and dark in this piece,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
deprivations, inhibitions and poverty...
The artist employs
a rectangular grid
to restrict the
colours, which thus
stand alone.
``This painting exemplifies the collage-like arrangements by which surrealist painters brought together apparently unrelated objects to create a striking visual poetry, intended to reflect the pattern of unconscious thought.'' [Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.162] |
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