Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1517063697 |
| Date: | Fri Sep 11 11:41:32 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
An important part of this picture is the here and now experience of
the senses of sight and sound
contrasting strongly with
the world of salt and pepper so clearly visible.
Contrasts of dark and light
dominate
the
foreground
of this drawing.
This work is
an expression of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
dominant angularity and horizontality
where the essential identity to the image
is
a primary natural sense
which belongs to the basic senses of
our nature.
The artist avoids
a rectangular grid
to restrict the
colours, which can by this means
float free.
Semiotically,
we see the
short vertical line
representing
strength
curve back and forth,
suggesting
inconstancy.
In post-impressionistic art,
the visual phenomena of the
physical
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
An important part of this particular sketch is that it is in some sense
active
rather than simply one of passive appreciation.
``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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