Pretentious Yet Pointless

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Artist: Aris, Sol
Medium: Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title: Randomly generated image 1133198424
Date: Sat Aug 8 07:59:47 UTC 2026
Description: The artist uses traditional proportions to define the colours, which in this way stand alone. In Shaker æsthetics, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, unimportant: the significant thing is feeling, as such. Paradoxically, we see the diagonal axis for the inner ego undulate towards the centre of the image, suggesting inconstancy. In this work Sol Aris depicts the relationship between night and day. Contrasts of the senses of sight and taste march across the vastness of this image. A deep underlying meaning of this picture is the impersonal forms and industrial colours contrasting strongly with the shapes to indicate in some sense active rather than simply one of passive comprehension. Contrasts of salt and pepper march across the emptiness of this picture. The work shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.

``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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