Pretentious Yet Pointless

	Pretentious Yet Pointless

Artist:	Aris, Sol
Medium:	Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title:	Randomly generated image 2056384139
Date:	Mon Sep 14 10:41:34 UTC 2026
Description:	It is useful to note that the essence of surrealism is that it encourages Sol Aris to define the composition in terms of dimensionality, rather than odour. In Shaker æsthetics, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless: the significant thing is feeling, as such. The never-ending curves are intertwined in a parody of stereometric construction. Contrasts of the senses of sight and sound dominate the emptiness of this carving. The spectator is drawn by the scale and openness of the image into the world of delicate sinuous curves. The piece shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. This work is an expression of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the dominant angularity and horizontality where the essential identity to the piece is a division of space that parallels our innermost confusion. ``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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