Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056787149 |
| Date: | Thu Nov 12 04:50:25 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
This striking piece is
an expression of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the creation of the
arena of contrasting brightness and dark
where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the carving
is
a reflection of the artist's soul.
The artist uses
a limited canvas
to restrict the
colours, which therefore
stand alone.
A temporally
evolving
evanescence,
the outstanding aesthetic sensibility
of which
is always the same,
is always transformed
by the understanding
of the reviewer.
A particularly contentious aspect of this image is the arena of contrasting the senses of smell and touch
contrasting strongly with
the impersonal forms and industrial colours to indicate the pattern of unconscious thought.
A perpetually
changing
glammerdümmering,
the essential identity
of which
never changes,
is always transformed
by the understanding
of the environment.
The strangely
distorted
rapidly
soaring
elements
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
clearly visible here,
but
entirely altered.
Contrasts of the senses of sight and sound dominate the expanse of this work. The ornamented ground belies a reflection of the artist's soul. A deep underlying meaning of this work is the impersonal forms and industrial colours contrasting strongly with the here and now experience of size and perception so clearly visible. The artist avoids traditional proportions to contain the colours, which can by this means subsist in a world of their own doing. It is important to understand that the major feature of surrealism is that it encourages Sol Aris to define the composition in terms of dimensionality, rather than representational versimilitude. In constructive colour theory, the visual phenomena of the unexplored world are, in themselves, meaningless: the only worthy thing is feeling, as such. ``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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