Pretentious Yet Pointless
The embellished canvas indicates a reflection of the artist's soul. Such forms, delicately variegated, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment. It is useful to note that the major feature of surrealism is that it encourages the viewer to understand form in terms of space, rather than mass.
The gently contorted upward reaching articulations of Sol Aris's previous works are clearly visible here, but transformed. It is useful to note that the essence of surrealism is that it enables the artist to define the composition in terms of dimensionality, rather than odour.
``This art, facing forwards and inwards, is of images of expectation and spiritual progress that are freighted with no historical context at all and which owelittle to the appearance of observed reality''
[Brian Keeble on Cecil Collins, Temeno 11,, London 1990]