Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056402707 |
| Date: | Thu Sep 17 08:16:13 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
In abstract art,
the visual phenomena of the
manifest
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
Such forms, intensely variegated, create a strong interaction of forces.
The emphatically factual experience of
size and perception in this picture,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
duty, responsibility, discipline and work...
``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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