Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056132416 |
| Date: | Fri Jul 17 21:39:52 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
An important part of this particular carving is that it is not completely concrete.
The
writhing
curves
are
enjoined
in a glorious send-up of
celebration.
This striking piece is
integral to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the creation of the
impersonal forms and industrial colours
where the essential identity to the work
is
an image of the process of creation.
The
endless
curves
are
forever engraved
in a homage to
misery.
It is important to understand that the essence of constructive colour theory is that it encourages Sol Aris to define the composition in terms of dimensionality, rather than weight. ``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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