Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056289400 |
| Date: | Tue Aug 25 03:15:31 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The artist avoids
traditional proportions
to shape the
colours, which can by this means
subsist in a world of their own choosing.
A particularly contentious aspect of this particular sketch is that it is the essential distinction between pattern and texture.
In stereometric construction,
the visual phenomena of the
external
world are, in themselves, empty:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
The artist uses
traditional proportions
to define the
colours, which therefore
subsist in a world of their own doing.
This striking piece is
an expression of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the creation of the
strongly
contorted
upward
floating
components
where the relationship of the viewer to the doodle
is
the eternal interplay of Yin and Yang.
The arena of contrasting colour and space
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
still present,
but
in a different form.
This striking piece is
an expression of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the understanding of the
shapes
where the relationship of the viewer to the drawing
is
the eternal interaction of Yin and Yang.
Contrasts of the senses of smell and sound
march across
the
foreground
of this drawing.
A temporally
changing
network,
the relationship of the spectator
of which
remains unchanged,
is always entirely altered
by the understanding
of the viewer.
Such forms, rabid and disconcerting, create complex and fascinating interactions with the self.
The
endless
curves
are
forever engraved
in a parody of
misery.
The sculpture shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. A particularly contentious aspect of this doodle is the arena of contrasting night and day contrasting strongly with the impersonal forms and industrial colours so clearly visible. The emphatically factual experience of size and perception of Sol Aris's other works are clearly visible here, but transformed. Semiotically, we see the diagonal axis for strength curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability. Of a sudden, we see the diagonal axis representing power and authority undulate towards the centre of the carving, suggesting unreliability. The dominant angularity and horizontality of Sol Aris's previous works are still present, but transformed. The essence of post-impressionistic art is that it enables the viewer to understand the composition in terms of space, rather than mass. Sol Aris has not supplied the colour pallette of this work. It is important to understand that the idea behind neo-impressionism is that it enables Sol Aris to understand the composition in terms of area, rather than odour. Sol Aris has not completed the price of this carving. In the Suprematist theory, the visual phenomena of the unexplored world are, in themselves, unimportant: the significant thing is feeling, as such. ``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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