Pretentious Yet Pointless

	Pretentious Yet Pointless

Artist:	Aris, Sol
Medium:	Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title:	Randomly generated image 1393067434
Date:	Thu Apr 30 22:17:23 EDT 2026
Description:	In this painting Sol Aris shows the relationship between the senses of smell and touch. In this work Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between light and shade. Contrasts of night and day dominate the vastness of this drawing. In neo-impressionism, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless: the only worthy thing is feeling, as such. Such forms, serene and powerful, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment. A perpetually evolving network, the essential identity of which remains unchanged, is sometimes transformed by the understanding of the outer surface. This image is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the world of the senses of sight and sound where the scale and openness to the piece is a division of space that parallels our innermost confusion. The artist uses traditional proportions to shape the colours, which can by this means float free. Such forms, intensely modulated, create disarmingly intenste feelings. The world of cow saliva and beer of Sol Aris's other works are still present, but in a different form. The garnished background enriches in some sense positive rather than simply one of passive appreciation. The drawing shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. A constantly changing glammerdummering, the outstanding aesthetic sensibility of which is always constant, is always transformed by the essential fact of the viewer. ``The problems dealt with in abstract art relate to the interplay of forces; the geometrical forms often used by abstract artists do not indicate (as has been thought) a conscious and intellectual, mathematical approach -- a square and a circle in art are nothing in themselves and are alive only in the instinctive and ispirational use an artist can make of them in expressing a poetic idea'' [Ben Nicholsen, Notes on Abstract Art, 1942]
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