Pretentious Yet Pointless

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Artist: Aris, Sol
Medium: Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title: Randomly generated image 1853010706
Date: Sat Aug 15 11:23:57 UTC 2026
Description: This striking piece is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the shapes where the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility to the piece is the sensuality of intoxification. The viewer is drawn by the scale and openness of the sketch into the world of measure when calculating long periods of time. The layers of approaching curves are closed in a glorious send-up of surrealism.

Such forms, both serene and tranquil, create strong gestalt sensations. In surrealism, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, empty: the important thing is feeling, as such. Unexpectedly, we see the short vertical line representing the inner ego curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability. The world of the senses of smell and touch of Sol Aris's earlier works are clearly visible here, but transformed.

``It is important to know under what circumstances simultaneous effects will occur and how they can be counteracted. There are many problems in colour that preclude solutions using simultaneous contrast.''
[Johannes Itten, The Art of Color]
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