Pretentious Yet Pointless

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Artist: Aris, Sol
Medium: Acrylics on virtual canvas
Title: Randomly generated image 2056474025
Date: Thu Oct 1 21:53:10 UTC 2026
Description: The writhing curves are closed in a tribute to misery. The artist employs traditional proportions to define the colours, which thus float free. The spectator is drawn by the essential identity of the image into the world of measure when calculating long periods of time. The receding curves are intertwined in a tribute to constructive colour theory.

In Shaker æsthetics, the visual phenomena of the external world are, in themselves, empty: the important thing is feeling, as such. This image is an expression of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the dominant angularity and horizontality where the scale and openness to the work is the essential difference between pattern and texture.

``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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