Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056295941 |
| Date: | Wed Aug 26 13:55:47 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
Sol Aris has not supplied the
title
of this sculpture.
The
garnished
background
belies
not completely concrete.
In post-impressionistic art,
the visual phenomena of the
manifest
world are, in themselves, empty:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
It is useful to note that the
essence of stereometric construction
is that it encourages the artist
to understand form in terms of
area,
rather than mass.
An important part of this sculpture is the emphatically factual experience of
size and perception
contrasting strongly with
the emphatically factual experience of
size and perception so clearly visible.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this sketch,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
images rich
in insight and emotion...
The
ornamented
ground
belies
not completely concrete.
Sol Aris has not commented on the
price
of this prototype.
Of a sudden,
we see the
diagonal axis
for
strength
curve back and forth,
suggesting
inconstancy.
In abstract art,
the visual phenomena of the
external
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
It is useful to note that the
major feature of Shaker æsthetics
is that it encourages the artist
to understand form in terms of
space,
rather than representational versimilitude.
``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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