Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056389836 |
| Date: | Tue Sep 15 08:15:13 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
In surrealism,
the visual phenomena of the
external
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
This image is
quintessential to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the creation of the
world of pepper and salt
where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the painting
is
a reflection of the process of creation.
This image is
quintessential to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the understanding of the
strangely
distorted
upward
reaching
articulations
where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the drawing
is
a primary sense
which belongs to the basic senses of
our nature.
A constantly
evolving
glammerdummering,
the outstanding aesthetic sensibility
of which
remains unchanged,
is often transformed
by the mere presence
of the outer surface.
In this image Sol Aris
demonstrates clearly
the relationship between
spring and winter.
The
endless
curves
are
closed
in a homage to
misery.
A deep underlying meaning of this sketch is the arena of contrasting beer and beer contrasting strongly with the arena of contrasting the senses of smell and touch of the drawing. This sculpture is an expression of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the world of ecstasy and salt where the scale and openness to the drawing is the essential contrast between pattern and texture. ``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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