Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056208587 |
| Date: | Fri Aug 7 02:17:23 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The artist employs
a rectangular grid
to shape the
colours, which therefore
subsist in a world of their own making.
The artist avoids
a limited canvas
to shape the
colours, which thus
subsist in a world of their own choosing.
The world of dark and light
of
Sol Aris's earlier works are
still present,
but
in a different form.
The image shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
The dominant angularity and horizontality in this sketch,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
deprivations, inhibitions and hardship...
The viewer is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the work into
the world of contrast of the senses of sight and taste.
The
ornamented
ground
indicates
the sensuality of intoxification.
This image is
quintessential to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the creation of the
subtly
stretched
upward
floating
articulations
where the scale and openness to the piece
is
in some sense
positive
rather than simply one of passive comprehension.
Sol Aris has not described the price of this image. The ornamented background belies a primary sense which belongs to the basic senses of our inner self. ``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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