Pretentious Yet Pointless

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Artist: Aris, Sol
Medium: Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title: Randomly generated image 1517035423
Date: Fri Sep 4 05:13:38 UTC 2026
Description: The subtly contorted quickly flying articulations of Sol Aris's other works are still present, but in a different form. Such forms, violent and disconcerting, create a strong interplay of forces. In this painting Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between the senses of sight and smell.

The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The viewer is drawn by the relationship of the viewer of the work into the world of duty, responsibility, discipline and work. The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.

``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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