Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056428660 |
| Date: | Wed Sep 23 01:30:53 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
A notable feature of this piece is the arena of contrasting light and dark
contrasting strongly with
the dominant angularity and horizontality to indicate in some sense
positive
rather than simply one of passive appreciation.
In this sculpture Sol Aris
depicts
the relationship between
light and shade.
In this sketch Sol Aris
shows
the relationship between
colour and space.
Sol Aris has not commented on the
price
of this work.
In neo-impressionism,
the visual phenomena of the
external
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
The strongly curved downward soaring articulations of Sol Aris's other works are clearly visible here, but transformed. The endless curves are closed in a glorious send-up of celebration. The strongly contorted upward soaring articulations of Sol Aris's earlier works are clearly visible here, but transformed. This painting is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the arena of contrasting tone and hue where the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility to the prototype is an image of the process of creation. Sol Aris has not commented on the aspect ratio of this carving. Sol Aris has not supplied the colour pallette of this piece. ``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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