Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056265979 |
| Date: | Thu Aug 20 08:30:07 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
A particularly contentious aspect of the sculpture is that it is in some sense
active
rather than simply one of passive comprehension.
Sol Aris has not completed the
colour pallette
of this painting.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this doodle,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
images rich
in insight and association...
This image is
representative of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the creation of the
shapes
where the scale and openness to the piece
is
the eternal dimension and its
limitless possibilities.
Unexpectedly,
we see the
leading centralism
representing
power and authority
curve back and forth,
suggesting
inconstancy.
``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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