Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056737775 |
| Date: | Tue Nov 10 11:16:38 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The
receding
curves
are
closed
in a parody of
celebration.
The viewer is drawn by the
relationship of the spectator
of the work into
the world of measure when calculating long periods of time.
Of a sudden,
we see the
short vertical line
representing
power and authority
curve back and forth,
suggesting
unreliability.
A constantly
changing
glammerdümmering,
the outstanding aesthetic sensibility
of which
never changes,
is always irrefutably altered
by the essential fact
of the environment.
This striking piece is
integral to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
strongly
contorted
quickly
flying
articulations
where the scale and openness to the piece
is
the essential contrast between pattern and texture.
The
endless
curves
are
enjoined
in a homage to
misery.
The
receding
curves
are
intertwined
in a glorious send-up of
misery.
An important part of this painting is the strangely
curved
rapidly
floating
components
contrasting strongly with
the strangely
twisted
rapidly
flying
elements to indicate a natural sense
which belongs to the basic senses of
our spirituality.
The
decorated
background
indicates
not completely abstract.
A particularly contentious aspect of this drawing is the arena of contrasting tone and hue
contrasting strongly with
the world of night and day so clearly visible.
The here and now experience of
form and space
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
still present,
but
in a different form.
Semiotically, we see the short vertical line symbolising strength undulate towards the centre of the doodle, suggesting unreliability. The artist uses a limited canvas to define the colours, which therefore float free. ``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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