Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393120817 |
| Date: | Sun Jul 5 08:24:27 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The here and now experience of
form and space
of
Sol Aris's previous works are
clearly visible here,
but
transformed.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
clearly visible here,
but
transformed.
The
idea behind surrealism
is that it encourages the artist
to understand form in terms of
space,
rather than representational versimilitude.
Sol Aris has not supplied the
title
of this carving.
The artist does not use
traditional proportions
to restrict the
colours, which can by this means
subsist in a world of their own choosing.
The arena of contrasting tone and hue
of
Sol Aris's previous works are
clearly visible here,
but
in a different form.
A notable feature of this image is the arena of contrasting tone and hue contrasting strongly with the shapes to indicate a reflection of the artist's soul. Contrasts of sugar and wine emphasise the broad scope of the image. Semiotically, we see the diagonal axis symbolising power and authority curve back and forth, suggesting inconstancy. The artist employs a rectangular grid to shape the colours, which in this way stand alone. ``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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