Pretentious Yet Pointless

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Artist: Aris, Sol
Medium: Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title: Randomly generated image 1852854566
Date: Sun Jul 5 02:47:42 UTC 2026
Description: The emphatically factual experience of colour and space of Sol Aris's previous works are clearly visible here, but transformed. The artist avoids a rectangular grid to contain the colours, which can by this means float free. In constructive colour theory, the visual phenomena of the manifest world are, in themselves, meaningless: the significant thing is feeling, as such.

``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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