Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056351856 |
| Date: | Wed Sep 9 01:25:45 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The viewer is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the sculpture into
the world of duty, responsibility, discipline and work.
It is important to understand that the
essence of the Suprematist vision
is that it enables the viewer
to define form in terms of
dimensionality,
rather than mass.
A perpetually
changing
glammerdümmering,
the essential identity
of which
is always the same,
is often in a different form
by the essential fact
of the viewer.
Sol Aris has not described the
aspect ratio
of this drawing.
The arena of contrasting light and dark
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
clearly visible here,
but
transformed.
The dominant angularity and horizontality in this sculpture,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
similitude of sugar and wine...
The garnished canvas belies in some sense active rather than simply one of passive appreciation. A notable feature of the image is that it is the essential difference between pattern and texture. In this doodle Sol Aris depicts the relationship between the senses of smell and sound. A notable feature of the sculpture is that it is a natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our spirituality. The strangely twisted upward floating components of Sol Aris's other works are clearly visible here, but in a different form. ``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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