Pretentious Yet Pointless

	Pretentious Yet Pointless

Artist:	Aris, Sol
Medium:	Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title:	Randomly generated image 1133046293
Date:	Fri May 1 14:47:00 EDT 2026
Description:	This image is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the arena of contrasting toothpaste and rolling sand where the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility to the piece is the pattern of unconscious thought. Of a sudden, we see the short vertical line symbolising the self undulate towards the centre of the painting, suggesting unreliability. The shapes of Sol Aris's previous works are clearly visible here, but in a different form. An important part of this image is the dominant angularity and horizontality contrasting strongly with the shapes to indicate the sensuality of extinction. An interesting side of this work is the arena of contrasting sugar and wine contrasting strongly with the world of dark and light so clearly visible. The spectator is drawn by the relationship of the viewer of the image into the world of single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings. In constructive colour theory, the visual phenomena of the unexplored world are, in themselves, meaningless: the significant thing is feeling, as such. Such forms, violent and disconcerting, create a strong interaction of forces. Paradoxically, we see the diagonal axis for strength undulate towards the centre of the picture, suggesting unreliability. The major feature of abstract art is that it enables the viewer to define form in terms of dimensionality, rather than odour. The viewer is drawn by the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility of the carving into the world of images rich in meaning and emotion. The painting shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. Sol Aris has not supplied the price of this image. Semiotically, we see the short vertical line representing the self curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability. The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The world of salt and pepper in this image, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind images strong in insight and association... The garnished figure belies a reflection of the artist's soul. Such forms, delicately variegated, create strong gestalt sensations. In this carving Sol Aris delineates the relationship between salt and pepper. ``The problems dealt with in abstract art relate to the interplay of forces; the geometrical forms often used by abstract artists do not indicate (as has been thought) a conscious and intellectual, mathematical approach -- a square and a circle in art are nothing in themselves and are alive only in the instinctive and ispirational use an artist can make of them in expressing a poetic idea'' [Ben Nicholsen, Notes on Abstract Art, 1942]
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