Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1133734997 |
| Date: | Tue Nov 10 14:03:08 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
It is useful to note that the
essence of surrealism
is that it encourages the artist
to define the composition in terms of
area,
rather than weight.
The dominant angularity and horizontality
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
still present,
but
in a different form.
In abstract art,
the visual phenomena of the
physical
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
Such forms, intensely variegated, create a strong interaction of forces.
The
layers of approaching
curves
are
closed
in a glorious send-up of
misery.
Semiotically,
we see the
short vertical line
representing
the self
undulate towards the centre of the image,
suggesting
inconstancy.
It is important to understand that the
major feature of constructive colour theory
is that it encourages the viewer
to define the composition in terms of
dimensionality,
rather than odour.
The arena of contrasting tone and hue
of
Sol Aris's previous works are
clearly visible here,
but
transformed.
``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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