Pretentious Yet Pointless

	Pretentious Yet Pointless

Artist:	Aris, Sol
Medium:	Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title:	Randomly generated image 1393077140
Date:	Fri May 1 17:07:42 EDT 2026
Description:	The arena of contrasting salt and pepper of Sol Aris's previous works are clearly visible here, but in a different form. An important part of this image is the strangely curved quickly flying components contrasting strongly with the arena of contrasting tone and hue to indicate in some sense active rather than simply one of passive appreciation. An important part of the painting is that it is not completely concrete. A central underlying meaning of this image is the shapes contrasting strongly with the shapes so clearly visible. Semiotically, we see the diagonal axis symbolising power and authority undulate towards the centre of the image, suggesting inconstancy. The adorned ground indicates an image of the process of creation. The artist uses traditional proportions to contain the colours, which therefore subsist in a world of their own doing. The decorated ground enriches not completely concrete. The figured background indicates not completely concrete. The dominant angularity and horizontality of Sol Aris's other works are still present, but in a different form. A notable feature of this particular sketch is that it is the pattern of unconscious thought. This striking piece is an expression of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the world of the senses of smell and taste where the relationship of the viewer to the piece is the sensuality of extinction. Such forms, quietly formal, create complex and fascinating interactions with the self. This image is integral to 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 sensuality of intoxification. Contrasts of night and day emphasise the foreground of the sketch. The writhing curves are forever engraved in a parody of celebration. Contrasts of salt and pepper dominate the foreground of this carving. It is important to understand that the idea behind stereometric construction is that it encourages the viewer to define the composition in terms of space, rather than representational versimilitude. This striking piece is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the dominant angularity and horizontality where the scale and openness to the sketch is the sensuality of extinction. The essence of neo-impressionism is that it encourages the viewer to understand form in terms of area, rather than weight. The dominant angularity and horizontality in this doodle, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind graceful lissome curvilinear forms... The arena of contrasting tone and hue of Sol Aris's other works are still present, but entirely altered. Such forms, serene and powerful, create strong gestalt sensations. In Shaker æsthetics, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, unimportant: the significant thing is feeling, as such. ``This art, facing forwards and inwards, is of images of expectation and spiritual progress that are freighted with no historical context at all and which owelittle to the appearance of observed reality'' [Brian Keeble on Cecil Collins, Temeno 11,, London 1990]
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