Pretentious Yet Pointless

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Artist: Aris, Sol
Medium: Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title: Randomly generated image 2056241714
Date: Sat Aug 15 06:33:43 UTC 2026
Description: This striking piece is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the impersonal forms and industrial colours where the essential identity to the painting is a reflection of the process of creation. In surrealism, the visual phenomena of the manifest world are, in themselves, meaningless: the only worthy thing is feeling, as such.

``What does it all mean? I have little idea... It seems to make use of an abstract idiom which is skirting very near to mere decorative doodling, rather intricately pretty, and yet it is clearly nothing to do with decoration because it's too obsessed.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.232]
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