Pretentious Yet Pointless

	Pretentious Yet Pointless

Artist:	Aris, Sol
Medium:	Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title:	Randomly generated image 2055984294
Date:	Mon May 18 00:23:22 EDT 2026
Description:	The prototype shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. In Shaker æsthetics, the visual phenomena of the unexplored world are, in themselves, unimportant: the significant thing is feeling, as such. The spectator is drawn by the relationship of the spectator of the image into the world of duty, responsibility, discipline and work. The artist employs a rectangular grid to contain the colours, which can by this means subsist in a world of their own doing. Contrasts of sugar and wine dominate the broad scope of the sculpture. The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this painting, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind similarity of dark and light... In this doodle Sol Aris delineates the relationship between the senses of sight and touch. The impersonal forms and industrial colours of Sol Aris's previous works are clearly visible here, but in a different form. A particularly contentious aspect of this doodle is the impersonal forms and industrial colours contrasting strongly with the impersonal forms and industrial colours to indicate the pattern of unconscious thought. ``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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