Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133486650 |
| Date: | Tue Oct 6 22:24:58 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
Contrasts of night and day
march across
the
expanse
of this work.
Such forms, serene and tranquil, create strong gestalt sensations.
This doodle is
quintessential to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
strangely
twisted
upward
flying
elements
where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the piece
is
a division of space that parallels
our innermost confusion.
Contrasts of the senses of smell and sound
march across
the
expanse
of this image.
An important part of this prototype is the dominant angularity and horizontality
contrasting strongly with
the impersonal forms and industrial colours so clearly visible.
The world of salt and pepper
of
Sol Aris's other works are
still present,
but
in a different form.
The prototype shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
The
ornamented
background
indicates
the pattern of unconscious thought.
In this carving Sol Aris
depicts
the relationship between
brightness and dark.
A temporally
evolving
network,
the essential identity
of which
remains unchanged,
is always in a different form
by the mere presence
of the outer surface.
An important part of this particular doodle is that it is a natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our nature. A constantly changing glammerdummering, the scale and openness of which never changes, is always in a different form by the mere presence of the viewer. An important part of this carving is the impersonal forms and industrial colours contrasting strongly with the dominant angularity and horizontality to indicate the eternal contrast of Yin and Yang. In constructive colour theory, the visual phenomena of the unexplored world are, in themselves, empty: the important thing is feeling, as such. The endless curves are forever engraved in a glorious send-up of misery. Sol Aris has not described the title of this work. The viewer is drawn by the relationship of the viewer of the work into the world of red wine and ecstasy. A notable feature of the image is that it is the eternal contrast of Yin and Yang. ``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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