Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056716042 |
| Date: | Mon Nov 9 14:25:10 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
It is important to understand that the
major feature of the Suprematist vision
is that it enables the artist
to define form in terms of
area,
rather than weight.
In the Suprematist school,
the visual phenomena of the
external
world are, in themselves, empty:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
An interesting side of this sketch is the here and now experience of
summer and autumn
contrasting strongly with
the shapes so clearly visible.
The work shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
Paradoxically, we see the short vertical line representing strength undulate towards the centre of the picture, suggesting unreliability. ``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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