Pretentious Yet Pointless

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Artist: Aris, Sol
Medium: Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title: Randomly generated image 1393595778
Date: Sat Oct 17 11:35:45 UTC 2026
Description: A notable feature of this particular work is that it is a division of space that parallels the divisions and interstices of the mind. The doodle shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. In this picture Sol Aris depicts the relationship between salt and pepper. A notable feature of this painting is the world of the senses of smell and taste contrasting strongly with the world of the senses of sight and touch of the work. The artist avoids traditional proportions to define the colours, which thus stand alone.

A constantly evolving network, the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility of which never changes, is sometimes transformed by the essential fact of the onlooker. This image is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the world of spring and winter where the relationship of the spectator to the piece is the sensuality of extinction. Such forms, serene and powerful, create disarmingly intenste shivers of emotion.

``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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