Pretentious Yet Pointless
``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]
Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056280538 |
| Date: | Sun Aug 23 07:44:58 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
It is important to understand that the
essence of abstract art
is that it enables the artist
to define the composition in terms of
space,
rather than weight.
The arena of contrasting tone and hue
of
Sol Aris's other works are
still present,
but
transformed.
The
ornamented
ground
indicates
in some sense
active
rather than simply one of passive appreciation.
A notable feature of this particular image is that it is a natural sense
which belongs to the basic senses of
our psychology.
In Shaker æsthetics,
the visual phenomena of the
unexplored
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
Unexpectedly,
we see the
short vertical line
symbolising
power and authority
curve back and forth,
suggesting
inconstancy.
``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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