Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056880200 |
| Date: | Sun Nov 15 11:14:01 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
Paradoxically,
we see the
diagonal axis
for
power and authority
undulate towards the centre of the work,
suggesting
unreliability.
This drawing is
an expression of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
world of salt and pepper
where the relationship of the spectator to the prototype
is
a division of space that parallels
the divisions and interstices of the mind.
Contrasts of the infant nose and beer
emphasise
the
emptiness
of this prototype.
The
garnished
canvas
belies
the pattern of unconscious thought.
``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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