Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056453769 |
| Date: | Sun Sep 27 11:22:10 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The arena of contrasting night and day
of
Sol Aris's previous works are
still present,
but
transformed.
Such forms, both serene and poetic, create a strong interplay of forces.
The
beribboned
canvas
indicates
the eternal or spiritual dimension and its
endless possibilities.
Contrasts of brightness and shade
march across
the
emptiness
of this piece.
Semiotically,
we see the
diagonal axis
representing
power and authority
undulate towards the centre of the doodle,
suggesting
inconstancy.
This image is
quintessential to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the understanding of the
strangely
distorted
quickly
soaring
articulations
where the relationship of the spectator to the piece
is
the sensuality of extinction.
Sol Aris has not completed the meaning of this drawing. Contrasts of the senses of smell and sight march across the broad scope of the image. Semiotically, we see the leading centralism symbolising power and authority curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability. In constructive colour theory, the visual phenomena of the manifest world are, in themselves, unimportant: the significant thing is feeling, as such. The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. Contrasts of dark and light emphasise the foreground of the prototype. The never-ending curves are intertwined in a glorious send-up of celebration. Sol Aris has not supplied the price of this drawing. An interesting side of this work is the dominant angularity and horizontality contrasting strongly with the world of the senses of sight and sound of the painting. Sol Aris has not completed the individuality of this image. Sol Aris has not commented on the aspect ratio of this picture. The viewer is drawn by the essential identity of the image into the world of the senses of smell and sight. The never-ending curves are closed in a tribute to Shaker æsthetics. ``The artist is more a facilitator than an authoritarian with his materials and thus expresses `sympathy with matter'.'' [Robert Morris: Works of the Eighties, p.26., Edward F. Fry and Donald P. Kuspit] |
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