Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056262814 |
| Date: | Wed Aug 19 16:02:09 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
A constantly
changing
glammerdümmering,
the outstanding aesthetic sensibility
of which
never changes,
is sometimes irrefutably altered
by the mere presence
of the environment.
The painting shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
This striking piece is
quintessential to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
arena of contrasting the senses of sight and touch
where the essential identity to the piece
is
in some sense
active
rather than simply one of passive comprehension.
The viewer is drawn by the
outstanding aesthetic sensibility
of the sculpture into
the world of the senses of sight and touch.
In this work Sol Aris
shows
the relationship between
salt and pepper.
``Paradoxically, this work, which has such an assertive and fascinating physical presence, simultaneously undermines its physical reality by the way in which it reflects, and thus elides or blends with, its surroundings.'' [Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.262] |
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