Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1517177004 |
| Date: | Thu Oct 1 20:20:27 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
This image is
integral to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the understanding of the
impersonal forms and industrial colours
where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the image
is
an image of the process of creation.
The shapes 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...
The
decorated
background
enriches
in some sense
active
rather than simply one of passive appreciation.
The dominant angularity and horizontality
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
clearly visible here,
but
completely altered.
``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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