Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2055980707 |
| Date: | Sun May 17 07:00:22 EDT 2026 |
| Description: |
In surrealism,
the visual phenomena of the
objective
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
Contrasts of brightness and dark
emphasise
the
expanse
of the image.
In this sculpture Sol Aris
shows
the relationship between
brightness and dark.
The sketch shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
A notable feature of this doodle is the shapes
contrasting strongly with
the here and now experience of
size and perception to indicate a division of space that parallels
the divisions and interstices of the mind.
The spectator is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the painting into
the world of measure when calculating long periods of time.
Contrasts of dark and light emphasise the emptiness of the picture. The spectator is drawn by the relationship of the spectator of the work into the world of similitude of pepper and the freedom of the flying mountain. The impersonal forms and industrial colours of Sol Aris's earlier works are clearly visible here, but in a different form. The layers of approaching curves are closed in a homage to abstract art. The work shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. Such forms, quietly formal, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment. The doodle shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The spectator is drawn by the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility of the image into the world of single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings. |
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