Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393213868 |
| Date: | Sat Aug 1 20:43:23 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The
garnished
canvas
indicates
in some sense
positive
rather than simply one of passive comprehension.
The
major feature of Shaker æsthetics
is that it enables the artist
to understand the composition in terms of
dimensionality,
rather than weight.
The arena of contrasting dark and light
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
clearly visible here,
but
transformed.
In constructive colour theory,
the visual phenomena of the
physical
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
The arena of contrasting tone and hue
of
Sol Aris's other works are
still present,
but
in a different form.
The dominant angularity and horizontality in this piece,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
single-axis asymmetric soft,
closed signs with inner and outer crossings...
``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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