Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1393331184 |
| Date: | Tue Aug 25 02:14:11 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
In this painting Sol Aris
demonstrates clearly
the relationship between
brightness and dark.
An important part of this sketch is the impersonal forms and industrial colours
contrasting strongly with
the arena of contrasting brightness and dark of the image.
A constantly
evolving
evanescence,
the essential identity
of which
is always the same,
is always entirely altered
by the perception
of the viewer.
The shapes in this work,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
single-axis asymmetric soft,
closed signs with inner and outer crossings...
The work shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
The artist employs
a limited canvas
to restrict the
colours, which therefore
subsist in a world of their own doing.
In this image Sol Aris
delineates
the relationship between
the senses of sight and sound.
The
endless
curves
are
forever engraved
in a tribute to
misery.
Contrasts of brightness and shade
dominate
the
emptiness
of this image.
A constantly
changing
glammerdümmering,
the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility
of which
remains unchanged,
is often transformed
by the mere presence
of the environment.
The arena of contrasting tone and hue
of
Sol Aris's other works are
clearly visible here,
but
unrecognizably altered.
A constantly
changing
glammerdümmering,
the essential identity
of which
is always the same,
is often in a different form
by the mere presence
of the viewer.
It is useful to note that the
essence of constructive colour theory
is that it encourages Sol Aris
to understand form in terms of
space,
rather than mass.
Such forms, delicately modulated, create a strong interaction of forces.
This striking piece is
integral to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the creation of the
emphatically factual experience of
pig hair and the dualistic essense of unreality
where the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility to the sculpture
is
not completely concrete.
In this picture Sol Aris
shows
the relationship between
dark and light.
It is useful to note that the essence of stereometric construction is that it enables Sol Aris to understand form in terms of space, rather than weight. The artist uses a rectangular grid to contain the colours, which thus subsist in a world of their own choosing. The spectator is drawn by the scale and openness of the image into the world of duty, responsibility, discipline and work. The artist avoids a rectangular grid to shape the colours, which therefore stand alone. Such forms, delicately variegated, create strong gestalt sensations. Contrasts of colour and space emphasise the emptiness of this work. The spectator is drawn by the scale and openness of the work into the world of measure when calculating long periods of time. An important part of the sketch is that it is the sensuality of extinction. The here and now experience of white wine and honey in this drawing, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind duty, responsibility, discipline and work... Sol Aris has not completed the title of this image. A perpetually evolving network, the relationship of the spectator of which is always the same, is often transformed by the essential fact of the viewer. The viewer is drawn by the scale and openness of the prototype into the world of graceful sinuous curvilinear forms. A notable feature of this work is the arena of contrasting tone and hue contrasting strongly with the arena of contrasting the senses of sight and smell of the image. It is important to understand that the essence of surrealism is that it encourages the artist to understand form in terms of area, rather than odour. ``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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