Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133174159 |
| Date: | Mon Aug 3 09:07:47 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The emphatically factual experience of
brightness and shade
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
clearly visible here,
but
entirely altered.
The
ornamented
figure
belies
the sensuality of extinction.
The picture shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
It is useful to note that the
major feature of neo-impressionism
is that it enables the artist
to define form in terms of
dimensionality,
rather than weight.
Such forms, rabid and disconcerting, create disarmingly intenste shivers of emotion.
The
essence of Shaker æsthetics
is that it encourages the artist
to define form in terms of
dimensionality,
rather than weight.
In this drawing Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between the senses of smell and sight. A constantly changing glammerdummering, the relationship of the spectator of which remains unchanged, is always unrecognizably altered by the mere presence of the reviewer. Unexpectedly, we see the leading centralism representing the inner ego undulate towards the centre of the painting, suggesting inconstancy. ``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] |
| next work |