Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056567076 |
| Date: | Sat Oct 17 18:54:54 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The arena of contrasting tone and hue
of
Sol Aris's previous works are
clearly visible here,
but
unrecognizably altered.
The artist employs
a rectangular grid
to restrict the
colours, which therefore
subsist in a world of their own making.
Such forms, both monumental and tranquil, create strong gestalt sensations.
``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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