Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056181790 |
| Date: | Sat Aug 1 14:44:20 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
A notable feature of this particular image is that it is the sensuality of intoxification.
Sol Aris has not completed the
title
of this image.
The viewer is drawn by the
extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility
of the work into
the world of single-axis asymmetric soft,
closed signs with inner and outer crossings.
It is useful to note that the
idea behind the Suprematist works
is that it enables Sol Aris
to define form in terms of
space,
rather than weight.
The image shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
In neo-impressionism,
the visual phenomena of the
manifest
world are, in themselves, empty:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
A particularly contentious aspect of this picture is the shapes
contrasting strongly with
the arena of contrasting tone and hue to indicate the eternal contrast of Yin and Yang.
The
figured
canvas
enriches
the eternal interplay of Yin and Yang.
The
figured
background
belies
the spiritual dimension and its
limitless possibilities.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours of Sol Aris's other works are still present, but in a different form. Such forms, rapidly moving and disconcerting, create strong gestalt sensations. Such forms, delicately variegated, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment. A temporally evolving glammerdummering, the scale and openness of which remains unchanged, is sometimes in a different form by the essential fact of the outer surface. The viewer is drawn by the scale and openness of the prototype into the world of images strong in insight and emotion. The writhing curves are enjoined in a parody of Shaker æsthetics. Sol Aris has not commented on the individuality of this image. An important part of the sculpture is that it is not completely abstract. Sol Aris has not completed the title of this doodle. A constantly evolving glammerdummering, the relationship of the viewer of which never changes, is always irrefutably altered by the mere presence of the reviewer. In stereometric construction, the visual phenomena of the manifest world are, in themselves, meaningless: the significant thing is feeling, as such. The arena of contrasting dark and light of Sol Aris's other works are clearly visible here, but in a different form. An interesting aspect of this carving is the emphatically factual experience of size and perception contrasting strongly with the arena of contrasting tone and hue to indicate in some sense active rather than simply one of passive appreciation. ``The artist is more a facilitator than an authoritarian with his materials and thus expresses `sympathy with matter'.'' [Robert Morris: Works of the Eighties, p.26., Edward F. Fry and Donald P. Kuspit] |
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