Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056495758 |
| Date: | Mon Oct 5 20:40:08 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
Contrasts of sugar and wine
dominate
the
broad scope
of the work.
This piece is
quintessential to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
impersonal forms and industrial colours
where the scale and openness to the doodle
is
the eternal interplay of Yin and Yang.
A particularly contentious aspect of this piece is the impersonal forms and industrial colours
contrasting strongly with
the shapes to indicate in some sense
active
rather than simply one of passive appreciation.
``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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