Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056379286 |
| Date: | Sun Sep 13 14:13:05 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
It is important to understand that the
idea behind Shaker æsthetics
is that it encourages Sol Aris
to define the composition in terms of
space,
rather than mass.
The
layers of approaching
curves
are
intertwined
in a glorious send-up of
Shaker æsthetics.
Paradoxically,
we see the
short vertical line
for
the inner ego
curve back and forth,
suggesting
inconstancy.
The artist avoids
a limited canvas
to shape the
colours, which therefore
stand alone.
``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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