Pretentious Yet Pointless

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Artist: Aris, Sol
Medium: Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title: Randomly generated image 1517107374
Date: Fri Sep 18 08:05:23 UTC 2026
Description: This image is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the arena of contrasting tone and hue where the relationship of the viewer to the doodle is the pattern of unconscious thought. In abstract art, the visual phenomena of the external world are, in themselves, empty: the only worthy thing is feeling, as such. An interesting aspect of this particular work is that it is the pattern of unconscious thought. The decorated background indicates a reflection of the artist's soul. The artist avoids traditional proportions to define the colours, which thus stand alone. Sol Aris has not described the individuality of this sketch.

A deep underlying meaning of this painting is the dominant angularity and horizontality contrasting strongly with the impersonal forms and industrial colours of the work. Such forms, both serene and poetic, create strong gestalt sensations.

``The problems dealt with in abstract art relate to the interplay of forces; the geometrical forms often used by abstract artists do not indicate (as has been thought) a conscious and intellectual, mathematical approach -- a square and a circle in art are nothing in themselves and are alive only in the instinctive and ispirational use an artist can make of them in expressing a poetic idea''
[Ben Nicholsen, Notes on Abstract Art, 1942]
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