Pretentious Yet Pointless

	Pretentious Yet Pointless

Artist:	Aris, Sol
Medium:	Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title:	Randomly generated image 1134476915
Date:	Tue Nov 10 04:31:22 UTC 2026
Description:	Semiotically, we see the short vertical line representing the self curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability. In this sketch Sol Aris delineates the relationship between the senses of smell and taste. An important part of this drawing is the dominant angularity and horizontality contrasting strongly with the dominant angularity and horizontality so clearly visible. The gently contorted upward reaching articulations in this work, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind similarity of night and day... The embellished ground belies the sensuality of intoxification. The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this image, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind slender sinuous curvilinear forms... It is useful to note that the idea behind abstract art is that it encourages the artist to understand the composition in terms of dimensionality, rather than weight. The writhing curves are closed in a parody of abstract art. Sol Aris has not described the aspect ratio of this sculpture. The dominant angularity and horizontality of Sol Aris's previous works are still present, but transformed. This image is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the shapes where the scale and openness to the piece is the essential distinction between pattern and texture. ``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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