Pretentious Yet Pointless

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Artist: Aris, Sol
Medium: Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title: Randomly generated image 1132969489
Date: Sat Mar 28 18:14:34 EDT 2026
Description: This image is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the emphatically factual experience of size and perception where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the piece is not completely abstract. In surrealism, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless: the important thing is feeling, as such. The artist uses a limited canvas to restrict the colours, which can by this means subsist in a world of their own doing.

The strongly twisted rapidly reaching articulations of Sol Aris's previous works are clearly visible here, but in a different form.

``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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