Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393154788 |
| Date: | Tue Jul 14 09:36:18 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
An interesting aspect of this piece is the emphatically factual experience of
size and perception
contrasting strongly with
the world of colour and space to indicate the essential difference between pattern and texture.
The viewer is drawn by the
essential identity
of the picture into
the world of measure when calculating long periods of time.
The image shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
Of a sudden,
we see the
diagonal axis
for
strength
undulate towards the centre of the image,
suggesting
inconstancy.
The dominant angularity and horizontality
of
Sol Aris's previous works are
still present,
but
entirely altered.
A particularly contentious aspect of the sketch is that it is not completely abstract.
It is useful to note that the
major feature of surrealism
is that it encourages the viewer
to define the composition in terms of
area,
rather than weight.
``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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