Pretentious Yet Pointless

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Artist: Aris, Sol
Medium: Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title: Randomly generated image 1393859739
Date: Fri Nov 13 15:14:49 UTC 2026
Description: The viewer is drawn by the essential identity of the work into the world of invaluable cultural icons. Contrasts of salt and pepper march across the vastness of the image. It is useful to note that the idea behind the Suprematist vision is that it enables Sol Aris to define form in terms of space, rather than mass.

The spectator is drawn by the essential identity of the picture into the world of measure when calculating long periods of time. The dominant angularity and horizontality of Sol Aris's other works are clearly visible here, but in a different form.

Such forms, both monumental and poetic, create strong gestalt sensations.

``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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