Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056068483 |
| Date: | Tue Jun 30 03:29:45 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The piece shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
This work is
quintessential to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the understanding of the
here and now experience of
size and perception
where the scale and openness to the sketch
is
an image of the process of creation.
The
writhing
curves
are
enjoined
in a glorious send-up of
celebration.
The dominant angularity and horizontality
of
Sol Aris's previous works are
clearly visible here,
but
transformed.
``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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