Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056722372 |
| Date: | Tue Nov 10 00:26:45 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
In this work Sol Aris
delineates
the relationship between
beer and honey.
Contrasts of the senses of sight and taste
dominate
the
expanse
of the picture.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this drawing,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
graceful lissome curvilinear forms...
The arena of contrasting tone and hue in this sketch,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
single-axis asymmetric soft,
closed signs with inner and outer crossings...
The spectator is drawn by the
extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility
of the image into
the world of epistemology of space and
environment.
The
idea behind constructive colour theory
is that it enables the viewer
to understand the composition in terms of
dimensionality,
rather than odour.
The
writhing
curves
are
enjoined
in a parody of
stereometric construction.
Semiotically,
we see the
short vertical line
for
the inner ego
undulate towards the centre of the doodle,
suggesting
inconstancy.
In stereometric construction,
the visual phenomena of the
unexplored
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
Of a sudden,
we see the
leading centralism
symbolising
power and authority
curve back and forth,
suggesting
unreliability.
In surrealism,
the visual phenomena of the
physical
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
The viewer is drawn by the scale and openness of the piece into the world of contrast of salt and pepper. ``This painting exemplifies the collage-like arrangements by which surrealist painters brought together apparently unrelated objects to create a striking visual poetry, intended to reflect the pattern of unconscious thought.'' [Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.162] |
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