Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056303959 |
| Date: | Sat Aug 29 08:06:31 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
In neo-impressionism,
the visual phenomena of the
objective
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this painting,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
graceful lissome curvilinear forms...
Contrasts of the senses of sight and sound
dominate
the
vastness
of the piece.
A temporally
evolving
evanescence,
the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility
of which
remains unchanged,
is often in a different form
by the essential fact
of the viewer.
A temporally
changing
glammerdümmering,
the scale and openness
of which
is always constant,
is sometimes in a different form
by the essential fact
of the environment.
It is useful to note that the
major feature of stereometric construction
is that it encourages the artist
to define form in terms of
space,
rather than weight.
The
major feature of constructive colour theory
is that it enables Sol Aris
to understand the composition in terms of
space,
rather than weight.
This painting is
integral to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
here and now experience of
size and perception
where the scale and openness to the sculpture
is
a reflection of the artist's soul.
The artist employs
traditional proportions
to contain the
colours, which thus
stand alone.
``Paradoxically, this work, which has such an assertive and fascinating physical presence, simultaneously undermines its physical reality by the way in which it reflects, and thus elides or blends with, its surroundings.'' [Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.262] |
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