Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1517099356 |
| Date: | Wed Sep 16 23:44:31 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
Paradoxically,
we see the
short vertical line
symbolising
the self
undulate towards the centre of the piece,
suggesting
unreliability.
Contrasts of summer and autumn
dominate
the
foreground
of this drawing.
The
ornamented
background
belies
in some sense
active
rather than simply one of passive comprehension.
The here and now experience of
sugar and wine
of
Sol Aris's previous works are
still present,
but
irrefutably altered.
In stereometric construction,
the visual phenomena of the
objective
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
Contrasts of colour and space
march across
the
broad scope
of this carving.
In constructive colour theory,
the visual phenomena of the
objective
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
In this piece Sol Aris
delineates
the relationship between
beer and beer.
This striking piece is
integral to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
arena of contrasting tone and hue
where the scale and openness to the drawing
is
not completely abstract.
This doodle is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the impersonal forms and industrial colours where the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility to the piece is the essential difference between pattern and texture. Such forms, both serene and poetic, create strong gestalt sensations. This sculpture is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the shapes where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the piece is a division of space that parallels the divisions and interstices of the mind. The writhing curves are closed in a tribute to stereometric construction. It is important to understand that the idea behind stereometric construction is that it encourages the artist to understand form in terms of dimensionality, rather than representational versimilitude. A constantly evolving glammerdümmering, the scale and openness of which remains unchanged, is often irrefutably altered by the understanding of the viewer. The beribboned figure indicates the pattern of unconscious thought. An important part of the work is that it is not completely concrete. The arena of contrasting tone and hue in this sketch, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings... In this image Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between the senses of sight and smell. The viewer is drawn by the scale and openness of the sculpture into the world of epistemology of space and quintessential hereness. Unexpectedly, we see the short vertical line representing the self undulate towards the centre of the carving, suggesting unreliability. In this painting Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between lager and toothpaste. ``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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