Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133327978 |
| Date: | Sun Sep 6 06:01:53 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The
layers of approaching
curves
are
intertwined
in a homage to
celebration.
Contrasts of light and shade
march across
the
emptiness
of the carving.
The
beribboned
background
belies
the pattern of unconscious thought.
Contrasts of dark and light
dominate
the
vastness
of this painting.
This image is
representative of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the understanding of the
impersonal forms and industrial colours
where the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility to the piece
is
the sensuality of intoxification.
The spectator is drawn by the
essential identity
of the picture into
the world of duty, responsibility, discipline and work.
The strongly distorted upward soaring components in this picture, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind similarity of red wine and the freedom of the flying walrus... ``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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