Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1134575663 |
| Date: | Fri Nov 13 18:09:31 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
An important part of this particular painting is that it is the essential distinction between pattern and texture.
The artist uses
a rectangular grid
to shape the
colours, which in this way
float free.
Contrasts of toothpaste and happiness
emphasise
the
expanse
of the work.
This image is
representative of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
dominant angularity and horizontality
where the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility to the piece
is
an image of the process of creation.
The arena of contrasting tone and hue of Sol Aris's earlier works are still present, but transformed. The never-ending curves are enjoined in a homage to abstract art. ``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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