Pretentious Yet Pointless

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Artist: Aris, Sol
Medium: Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title: Randomly generated image 1393327175
Date: Mon Aug 24 06:04:17 UTC 2026
Description: The work shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. In this work Sol Aris shows the relationship between colour and space. The here and now experience of size and perception in this painting, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind graceful lissome curves... In this doodle Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between the senses of sight and sound. A particularly contentious aspect of the image is that it is the eternal interaction of Yin and Yang. In Shaker æsthetics, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, meaningless: the important thing is feeling, as such. In abstract art, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, meaningless: the significant thing is feeling, as such. Contrasts of brightness and dark dominate the emptiness of the picture.

``Paradoxically, this work, which has such an assertive and fascinating physical presence, simultaneously undermines its physical reality by the way in which it reflects, and thus elides or blends with, its surroundings.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.262]
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