Pretentious Yet Pointless

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Artist: Aris, Sol
Medium: Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title: Randomly generated image 1956058693
Date: Sun Nov 30 05:04:16 EST 2025
Description: Sol Aris has not completed the meaning of this painting. This image is an expression of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the emphatically factual experience of happiness and toothpaste where the scale and openness to the work is a division of space that parallels our innermost confusion. The layers of approaching curves are intertwined in a tribute to constructive colour theory. The artist does not use traditional proportions to shape the colours, which can by this means subsist in a world of their own making. The shapes in this drawing, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind duty, responsibility, discipline and work... The embellished figure belies not completely abstract. Of a sudden, we see the short vertical line symbolising the inner ego curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability. The writhing curves are enjoined in a tribute to stereometric construction. The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this work, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind measure when calculating long periods of time... The artist does not use a rectangular grid to define the colours, which can by this means subsist in a world of their own doing.

``This painting exemplifies the collage-like arrangements by which surrealist painters brought together apparently unrelated objects to create a striking visual poetry, intended to reflect the pattern of unconscious thought.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.162]
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