Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056545976 |
| Date: | Wed Oct 14 14:50:36 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
A central underlying meaning of this painting is the here and now experience of
sugar and wine
contrasting strongly with
the shapes of the doodle.
The viewer is drawn by the
essential identity
of the work into
the world of invaluable cultural icons.
The
beribboned
background
enriches
a reflection of the artist's soul.
In constructive colour theory,
the visual phenomena of the
physical
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
In constructive colour theory,
the visual phenomena of the
external
world are, in themselves, empty:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
The
idea behind Shaker æsthetics
is that it enables the viewer
to understand form in terms of
dimensionality,
rather than odour.
The
decorated
background
enriches
a reflection of the artist's soul.
In this image Sol Aris
demonstrates clearly
the relationship between
the senses of sight and touch.
A perpetually
evolving
glammerdummering,
the essential identity
of which
remains unchanged,
is always transformed
by the perception
of the outer surface.
The artist avoids
traditional proportions
to contain the
colours, which in this way
stand alone.
The dominant angularity and horizontality in this image,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
slender lissome curvilinear forms...
Sol Aris has not completed the
meaning
of this image.
``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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