Pretentious Yet Pointless

	Pretentious Yet Pointless

Artist:	Aris, Sol
Medium:	Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title:	Randomly generated image 2056019953
Date:	Fri Jun 12 17:52:23 EDT 2026
Description:	The work shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. It is useful to note that the idea behind post-impressionistic art is that it encourages Sol Aris to understand form in terms of dimensionality, rather than representational versimilitude. In this image Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between salt and pepper. The world of light and dark of Sol Aris's earlier works are still present, but unrecognizably altered. The artist employs a rectangular grid to define the colours, which in this way float free. The arena of contrasting tone and hue of Sol Aris's other works are clearly visible here, but irrefutably altered. Semiotically, we see the diagonal axis for power and authority undulate towards the centre of the image, suggesting unreliability. Sol Aris has not described the title of this painting. This image is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the dominant angularity and horizontality where the essential identity to the piece is the eternal interaction of Yin and Yang. A deep underlying meaning of this particular doodle is that it is the sensuality of intoxification. It is useful to note that the major feature of surrealism is that it encourages the artist to define the composition in terms of dimensionality, rather than weight. An important part of this work is the impersonal forms and industrial colours contrasting strongly with the dominant angularity and horizontality so clearly visible. A constantly changing evanescence, the relationship of the spectator of which is always the same, is sometimes unrecognizably altered by the essential fact of the onlooker. The shapes in this image, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind images strong in insight and emotion... ``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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