Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2055994000 |
| Date: | Tue May 19 21:51:39 EDT 2026 |
| Description: |
Sol Aris has not supplied the
meaning
of this work.
The viewer is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the image into
the world of invaluable cultural relics.
In constructive colour theory,
the visual phenomena of the
unexplored
world are, in themselves, empty:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
The image shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
``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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