Pretentious Yet Pointless

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Artist: Aris, Sol
Medium: Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title: Randomly generated image 1132963792
Date: Thu Mar 26 20:22:17 EDT 2026
Description: A deep underlying meaning of this image is the shapes contrasting strongly with the dominant angularity and horizontality of the drawing. A notable feature of the image is that it is the pattern of unconscious thought. Such forms, both monumental and tranquil, create a strong interaction of forces. The artist employs a limited canvas to define the colours, which can by this means stand alone. The ornamented background enriches a primary natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our nature.

The artist avoids a limited canvas to define the colours, which therefore float free. A constantly evolving glammerdümmering, the essential identity of which remains unchanged, is sometimes completely altered by the essential fact of the viewer. This striking piece is an expression of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the shapes where the essential identity to the piece is in some sense active rather than simply one of passive appreciation. Such forms, both serene and poetic, create disarmingly strong sensations. Such forms, quietly formal, create complex and fascinating interactions with the 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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