Pretentious Yet Pointless
It is important to understand that the essence of abstract art is that it encourages the artist to understand form in terms of area, rather than odour.
Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056045484 |
| Date: | Tue Jun 23 14:47:58 EDT 2026 |
| Description: |
The arena of contrasting tone and hue in this prototype,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
single-axis asymmetric soft,
closed signs with inner and outer crossings...
It is useful to note that the
major feature of abstract art
is that it enables the artist
to define form in terms of
space,
rather than representational versimilitude.
This image is
an expression of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
world of colour and space
where the scale and openness to the piece
is
the essential contrast between pattern and texture.
Sol Aris has not supplied the
title
of this drawing.
The dominant angularity and horizontality in this work,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
epistemology of area and
environment...
Contrasts of the senses of smell and taste
march across
the
emptiness
of this sculpture.
A notable feature of the piece is that it is the essential difference between pattern and texture.
It is important to understand that the essence of abstract art is that it encourages the artist to understand form in terms of area, rather than odour. |
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