Pretentious Yet Pointless

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Artist: Aris, Sol
Medium: Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title: Randomly generated image 1517116236
Date: Sun Sep 20 00:43:11 UTC 2026
Description: The here and now experience of size and perception of Sol Aris's previous works are still present, but in a different form. A notable feature of this painting is the shapes contrasting strongly with the here and now experience of form and space to indicate a division of space that parallels our innermost confusion. The dominant angularity and horizontality in this doodle, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings...

``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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