Pretentious Yet Pointless

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Artist: Aris, Sol
Medium: Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title: Randomly generated image 1133095667
Date: Sat Jul 11 17:35:55 UTC 2026
Description: This striking piece is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the dominant angularity and horizontality where the relationship of the viewer to the picture is the pattern of unconscious thought. Sol Aris has not completed the aspect ratio of this doodle. The never-ending curves are closed in a parody of celebration. The impersonal forms and industrial colours of Sol Aris's earlier works are still present, but unrecognizably altered. In stereometric construction, the visual phenomena of the unexplored world are, in themselves, meaningless: the only worthy thing is feeling, as such.

``Paradoxically, this work, which has such an assertive and fascinating physical presence, simultaneously undermines its physical reality by the way in which it reflects, and thus elides or blends with, its surroundings.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.262]
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