Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393283498 |
| Date: | Sat Aug 15 08:44:05 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The
figured
figure
enriches
the pattern of unconscious thought.
It is important to understand that the
essence of Shaker æsthetics
is that it enables Sol Aris
to understand the composition in terms of
dimensionality,
rather than representational versimilitude.
Of a sudden,
we see the
diagonal axis
for
the self
undulate towards the centre of the image,
suggesting
unreliability.
Sol Aris has not completed the
price
of this image.
Paradoxically,
we see the
diagonal axis
for
the inner ego
curve back and forth,
suggesting
unreliability.
In surrealism,
the visual phenomena of the
objective
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
The spectator is drawn by the
relationship of the spectator
of the image into
the world of duty, responsibility, discipline and work.
The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. ``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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