Pretentious Yet Pointless

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Artist: Aris, Sol
Medium: Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title: Randomly generated image 1133267210
Date: Sat Aug 22 22:24:09 UTC 2026
Description: Unexpectedly, we see the leading centralism symbolising power and authority undulate towards the centre of the piece, suggesting inconstancy. The arena of contrasting tone and hue of Sol Aris's other works are still present, but unrecognizably altered. Contrasts of sugar and wine dominate the emptiness of the image. In post-impressionistic art, the visual phenomena of the manifest world are, in themselves, meaningless: the important thing is feeling, as such. Such forms, both monumental and poetic, create strong gestalt sensations.

``What does it all mean? I have little idea... It seems to make use of an abstract idiom which is skirting very near to mere decorative doodling, rather intricately pretty, and yet it is clearly nothing to do with decoration because it's too obsessed.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.232]
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