Pretentious Yet Pointless

	Pretentious Yet Pointless

Artist:	Aris, Sol
Medium:	Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title:	Randomly generated image 1134311069
Date:	Tue Oct 20 07:42:44 UTC 2026
Description:	A temporally evolving glammerdümmering, the relationship of the viewer of which never changes, is always transformed by the mere presence of the viewer. The arena of contrasting tone and hue in this painting, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings... Contrasts of colour and space march across the vastness of the image. The spectator is drawn by the scale and openness of the work into the world of deprivations, inhibitions and boredom. Paradoxically, we see the leading centralism representing power and authority undulate towards the centre of the image, suggesting unreliability. Of a sudden, we see the diagonal axis representing strength undulate towards the centre of the work, suggesting unreliability. The writhing curves are enjoined in a tribute to celebration. This work is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the arena of contrasting dark and light where the essential identity to the piece is not completely concrete. ``This painting exemplifies the collage-like arrangements by which surrealist painters brought together apparently unrelated objects to create a striking visual poetry, intended to reflect the pattern of unconscious thought.'' [Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.162]
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