Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1517143877 |
| Date: | Thu Sep 24 22:40:57 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The artist avoids
a rectangular grid
to contain the
colours, which therefore
stand alone.
Contrasts of sugar and wine
emphasise
the
vastness
of the doodle.
The sketch shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
It is important to understand that the
essence of stereometric construction
is that it enables the artist
to define the composition in terms of
dimensionality,
rather than odour.
A constantly
evolving
network,
the essential identity
of which
remains unchanged,
is always transformed
by the understanding
of the environment.
The arena of contrasting tone and hue
of
Sol Aris's previous works are
still present,
but
in a different form.
Such forms, quietly formal, create strong gestalt sensations.
In abstract art,
the visual phenomena of the
unexplored
world are, in themselves, empty:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
Paradoxically,
we see the
leading centralism
representing
the inner ego
curve back and forth,
suggesting
unreliability.
``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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