Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056360718 |
| Date: | Thu Sep 10 20:27:27 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
This striking piece is
integral to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
impersonal forms and industrial colours
where the essential identity to the painting
is
in some sense
positive
rather than simply one of passive comprehension.
Such forms, quietly formal, create disarmingly intenste feelings.
A particularly contentious aspect of the carving is that it is not completely concrete.
The work shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
``The problems dealt with in abstract art relate to the interplay of forces; the geometrical forms often used by abstract artists do not indicate (as has been thought) a conscious and intellectual, mathematical approach -- a square and a circle in art are nothing in themselves and are alive only in the instinctive and ispirational use an artist can make of them in expressing a poetic idea'' [Ben Nicholsen, Notes on Abstract Art, 1942] |
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