Pretentious Yet Pointless

	Pretentious Yet Pointless

Artist:	Aris, Sol
Medium:	Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title:	Randomly generated image 1134302840
Date:	Sun Oct 18 19:00:33 UTC 2026
Description:	In Shaker æsthetics, the visual phenomena of the manifest world are, in themselves, empty: the important thing is feeling, as such. The artist does not use traditional proportions to contain the colours, which thus stand alone. The viewer is drawn by the relationship of the viewer of the image into the world of images steeped in meaning and association. An interesting aspect of this picture is the dominant angularity and horizontality contrasting strongly with the impersonal forms and industrial colours to indicate the eternal interaction of Yin and Yang. Sol Aris has not described the meaning of this sketch. Contrasts of dark and light march across the foreground of this drawing. Semiotically, we see the leading centralism representing strength curve back and forth, suggesting inconstancy. Unexpectedly, we see the diagonal axis representing the self undulate towards the centre of the image, suggesting unreliability. The layers of approaching curves are intertwined in a glorious send-up of misery. ``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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