Pretentious Yet Pointless

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Artist: Aris, Sol
Medium: Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title: Randomly generated image 1393709929
Date: Sat Nov 7 18:10:01 UTC 2026
Description: The work shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. It is useful to note that the essence of Shaker æsthetics is that it enables Sol Aris to define the composition in terms of space, rather than weight. Contrasts of dark and light emphasise the emptiness of this work. The adorned background belies the sensuality of intoxification. The arena of contrasting the senses of sight and taste in this prototype, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind epistemology of space and place... The writhing curves are forever engraved in a parody of misery.

Of a sudden, we see the short vertical line representing strength curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability.

The arena of contrasting tone and hue in this work, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind deprivations, inhibitions and hardship... An interesting side of this work is the emphatically factual experience of size and perception contrasting strongly with the impersonal forms and industrial colours to indicate the sensuality of extinction. Sol Aris has not supplied the individuality of this sculpture. Such forms, quietly formal, create disarmingly intenste sensations. A temporally changing evanescence, the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility of which remains unchanged, is always transformed by the perception of the onlooker. The artist avoids a limited canvas to restrict the colours, which therefore subsist in a world of their own choosing.

``This painting exemplifies the collage-like arrangements by which surrealist painters brought together apparently unrelated objects to create a striking visual poetry, intended to reflect the pattern of unconscious thought.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.162]
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