Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056284547 |
| Date: | Mon Aug 24 02:49:19 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The world of the senses of sight and touch in this carving,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
single-axis asymmetric soft,
closed signs with inner and outer crossings...
In Shaker æsthetics,
the visual phenomena of the
physical
world are, in themselves, empty:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
Contrasts of the senses of smell and taste
march across
the
expanse
of the prototype.
``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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