Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056218293 |
| Date: | Mon Aug 10 02:06:44 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The viewer is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the prototype into
the world of deprivations, inhibitions and boredom.
This image is
representative of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the understanding of the
arena of contrasting the senses of sight and touch
where the relationship of the viewer to the image
is
not completely abstract.
The dominant angularity and horizontality in this image,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
similitude of spring and autumn...
In abstract art,
the visual phenomena of the
external
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
Contrasts of beer and happiness
emphasise
the
emptiness
of this painting.
``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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