Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056029659 |
| Date: | Mon Jun 15 23:43:20 EDT 2026 |
| Description: |
A particularly contentious aspect of this doodle is the shapes
contrasting strongly with
the arena of contrasting tone and hue so clearly visible.
The viewer is drawn by the
essential identity
of the work into
the world of invaluable cultural relics.
In abstract art,
the visual phenomena of the
manifest
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
Such forms, both monumental and tranquil, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment.
This striking piece is
quintessential to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
arena of contrasting tone and hue
where the essential identity to the drawing
is
the eternal dimension and its
endless possibilities.
The beribboned figure belies in some sense active rather than simply one of passive appreciation. An interesting aspect of the painting is that it is the pattern of unconscious thought. It is useful to note that the essence of the Suprematist theory is that it encourages the viewer to understand form in terms of space, rather than representational versimilitude. An important part of this particular carving is that it is a primary sense which belongs to the basic senses of our psychology. This striking piece is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the shapes where the scale and openness to the piece is not completely concrete. ``What does it all mean? I have little idea... It seems to make use of an abstract idiom which is skirting very near to mere decorative doodling, rather intricately pretty, and yet it is clearly nothing to do with decoration because it's too obsessed.'' [Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.232] |
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