Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056261970 |
| Date: | Wed Aug 19 11:13:29 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
An important part of this work is the arena of contrasting tone and hue
contrasting strongly with
the shapes to indicate not completely abstract.
Such forms, quietly formal, create a strong interaction of forces.
The spectator is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the carving into
the world of measure when calculating long periods of time.
The
ornamented
ground
enriches
the sensuality of extinction.
The artist does not use
a rectangular grid
to define the
colours, which can by this means
stand alone.
Such forms, both serene and poetic, create disarmingly strong sensations.
A central underlying meaning of this work is the emphatically factual experience of
salt and pepper
contrasting strongly with
the shapes of the sculpture.
It is important to understand that the
essence of surrealism
is that it encourages the viewer
to understand the composition in terms of
space,
rather than odour.
A particularly contentious aspect of this particular prototype is that it is a reflection of the artist's soul.
The painting shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
Of a sudden,
we see the
short vertical line
representing
strength
curve back and forth,
suggesting
unreliability.
This piece is
an expression of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the understanding of the
gently
stretched
downward
soaring
elements
where the scale and openness to the piece
is
the sensuality of extinction.
A temporally changing glammerdummering, the scale and openness of which never changes, is often in a different form by the mere presence of the onlooker. ``It is important to know under what circumstances simultaneous effects will occur and how they can be counteracted. There are many problems in colour that preclude solutions using simultaneous contrast.'' [Johannes Itten, The Art of Color] |
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