Pretentious Yet Pointless

	Pretentious Yet Pointless

Artist:	Aris, Sol
Medium:	Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title:	Randomly generated image 1393123982
Date:	Mon Jul 6 02:51:58 UTC 2026
Description:	The artist does not use a rectangular grid to contain the colours, which thus float free. An important part of this picture is the strangely distorted rapidly floating articulations contrasting strongly with the world of sugar and wine to indicate a reflection of the artist's soul. An interesting aspect of the sculpture is that it is in some sense active rather than simply one of passive appreciation. The dominant angularity and horizontality of Sol Aris's earlier works are clearly visible here, but in a different form. The impersonal forms and industrial colours of Sol Aris's previous works are still present, but completely altered. ``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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