Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133007469 |
| Date: | Sun Apr 19 13:04:40 EDT 2026 |
| Description: |
Such forms, quietly formal, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment.
A central underlying meaning of this particular doodle is that it is not completely abstract.
The viewer is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the image into
the world of delicate lissome curves.
Sol Aris has not supplied the
colour pallette
of this image.
It is important to understand that the
idea behind neo-impressionism
is that it encourages the artist
to define the composition in terms of
area,
rather than representational versimilitude.
It is important to understand that the
essence of Shaker æsthetics
is that it enables Sol Aris
to define the composition in terms of
space,
rather than weight.
In this work Sol Aris
delineates
the relationship between
night and day.
Contrasts of rolling sand and bare feet march across the broad scope of this carving. ``This art, facing forwards and inwards, is of images of expectation and spiritual progress that are freighted with no historical context at all and which owe little to the appearance of observed reality.'' [Brian Keeble, on Cecil Collins, Temeno 11, London, 1990, p.114] |
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