Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056875347 |
| Date: | Sun Nov 15 06:37:16 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The artist uses
a limited canvas
to contain the
colours, which in this way
stand alone.
In stereometric construction,
the visual phenomena of the
objective
world are, in themselves, empty:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
The image shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
The viewer is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the sculpture into
the world of single-axis asymmetric soft,
closed signs with inner and outer crossings.
``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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