Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056196349 |
| Date: | Tue Aug 4 12:39:17 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The prototype shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
The drawing shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this work,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
measure when calculating long periods of time...
In this carving Sol Aris
delineates
the relationship between
colour and space.
The
writhing
curves
are
intertwined
in a parody of
celebration.
Such forms, delicately variegated, create a strong interplay of forces.
Such forms, intensely variegated, create a strong interplay of forces.
It is important to understand that the
major feature of the Suprematist theory
is that it encourages the viewer
to understand the composition in terms of
area,
rather than representational versimilitude.
The work shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
Contrasts of light and dark march across the vastness of this carving. ``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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