Pretentious Yet Pointless

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Artist: Aris, Sol
Medium: Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title: Randomly generated image 1393832942
Date: Thu Nov 12 16:22:35 UTC 2026
Description: Sol Aris has not described the meaning of this image. An interesting aspect of this painting is the shapes contrasting strongly with the arena of contrasting tone and hue so clearly visible. The figured figure enriches a primary natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our inner self. The viewer is drawn by the scale and openness of the work into the world of invaluable cultural relics. The essence of Shaker æsthetics is that it encourages the viewer to define form in terms of area, rather than odour. The writhing curves are enjoined in a glorious send-up of Shaker æsthetics. In this sculpture Sol Aris depicts the relationship between dark and light.

The shapes in this prototype, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind measure when calculating long periods of time... This striking piece is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the dominant angularity and horizontality where the scale and openness to the piece is the pattern of unconscious thought.

``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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