Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 1853000156 |
| Date: | Thu Aug 13 16:08:37 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
An important part of this particular sketch is that it is a reflection of the process of creation.
In surrealism,
the visual phenomena of the
external
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the only worthy
thing is feeling, as such.
Semiotically,
we see the
short vertical line
symbolising
the self
undulate towards the centre of the drawing,
suggesting
unreliability.
In stereometric construction,
the visual phenomena of the
unexplored
world are, in themselves, empty:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
The
idea behind stereometric construction
is that it encourages the artist
to understand the composition in terms of
space,
rather than weight.
The decorated figure belies a division of space that parallels the divisions and interstices of the mind. ``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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