Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393219565 |
| Date: | Sun Aug 2 23:21:01 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
A temporally
evolving
network,
the essential identity
of which
remains unchanged,
is often transformed
by the perception
of the viewer.
Sol Aris has not supplied the
individuality
of this work.
It is important to understand that the
essence of post-impressionistic art
is that it enables Sol Aris
to understand form in terms of
area,
rather than weight.
Sol Aris has not supplied the
meaning
of this work.
A constantly
evolving
network,
the scale and openness
of which
remains unchanged,
is often entirely altered
by the mere presence
of the onlooker.
In Shaker æsthetics,
the visual phenomena of the
external
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
The
adorned
figure
enriches
the pattern of unconscious thought.
In abstract art,
the visual phenomena of the
manifest
world are, in themselves, empty:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
In this picture Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between dark and light. The spectator is drawn by the relationship of the spectator of the sculpture into the world of images rich in insight and association. Sol Aris has not commented on the price of this sketch. ``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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