Pretentious Yet Pointless
Contrasts of honey and rolling sand emphasise the expanse of the picture. This striking piece is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the strangely twisted downward soaring components where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the piece is the essential contrast between pattern and texture. Contrasts of sugar and wine march across the vastness of this sketch. Paradoxically, we see the short vertical line for strength curve back and forth, suggesting inconstancy. It is useful to note that the idea behind post-impressionistic art is that it encourages the artist to understand the composition in terms of dimensionality, rather than odour. The subtly curved rapidly reaching elements of Sol Aris's previous works are still present, but in a different form. Unexpectedly, we see the diagonal axis symbolising the self undulate towards the centre of the drawing, suggesting unreliability. An interesting aspect of the painting is that it is the eternal interaction of Yin and Yang. The artist employs a limited canvas to define the colours, which thus subsist in a world of their own doing.
``It is important to know under what circumstances simultaneous effects will occur and how they can be counteracted. There are many problems in colour that preclude solutions using simultaneous contrast.''
[Johannes Itten, The Art of Color]