Pretentious Yet Pointless | |
| Artist: | Aris, Sol |
| Medium: | Acrylics on virtual canvas |
| Title: | Randomly generated image 2056626156 |
| Date: | Thu Oct 29 11:53:55 UTC 2026 |
| Description: |
The artist employs
a limited canvas
to restrict the
colours, which in this way
stand alone.
Sol Aris has not supplied the
aspect ratio
of this painting.
Unexpectedly,
we see the
short vertical line
symbolising
strength
undulate towards the centre of the sketch,
suggesting
unreliability.
A temporally changing evanescence, the essential identity of which remains unchanged, is sometimes unrecognizably altered by the mere presence of the onlooker. The impersonal forms and industrial colours of Sol Aris's other works are clearly visible here, but in a different form. In this image Sol Aris depicts the relationship between dark and light. ``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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