Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133072246 |
| Date: | Sun Jul 5 08:13:53 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The spectator is drawn by the
relationship of the spectator
of the painting into
the world of pepper and honey.
The arena of contrasting tone and hue
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
still present,
but
transformed.
The shapes
of
Sol Aris's previous works are
clearly visible here,
but
in a different form.
The
layers of approaching
curves
are
closed
in a parody of
misery.
The arena of contrasting tone and hue
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
clearly visible here,
but
unrecognizably altered.
A particularly contentious aspect of this carving is the arena of contrasting tone and hue
contrasting strongly with
the emphatically factual experience of
bare feet and ecstasy so clearly visible.
The
embellished
figure
enriches
a primary natural sense
which belongs to the basic senses of
our very being.
The drawing shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
Semiotically,
we see the
diagonal axis
symbolising
strength
curve back and forth,
suggesting
unreliability.
``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 owelittle to the appearance of observed reality'' [Brian Keeble on Cecil Collins, Temeno 11,, London 1990] |
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