Pretentious Yet Pointless

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Artist: Aris, Sol
Medium: Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title: Randomly generated image 2056274841
Date: Sat Aug 22 05:20:31 UTC 2026
Description: The artist uses traditional proportions to define the colours, which therefore subsist in a world of their own doing. This striking piece is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the shapes where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the piece is a reflection of the artist's soul. Sol Aris has not supplied the individuality of this painting. This image is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the shapes where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the painting is not completely concrete.

``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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