Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056060465 |
| Date: | Sat Jun 27 20:30:19 EDT 2026 |
| Description: |
The artist avoids
a limited canvas
to restrict the
colours, which therefore
stand alone.
Contrasts of red wine and salt
emphasise
the
expanse
of this sketch.
Sol Aris has not described the
individuality
of this piece.
This image is
an expression of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the creation of the
impersonal forms and industrial colours
where the scale and openness to the piece
is
the essential distinction between pattern and texture.
Sol Aris has not completed the
title
of this work.
The
garnished
figure
enriches
a division of space that parallels
the divisions and interstices of the mind.
The
layers of approaching
curves
are
forever engraved
in a parody of
misery.
Of a sudden,
we see the
leading centralism
for
power and authority
undulate towards the centre of the image,
suggesting
unreliability.
The viewer is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the image into
the world of duty, responsibility, discipline and work.
The painting shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
``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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