Pretentious Yet Pointless
Such forms, serene and majestic, create disarmingly intenste sensations.
The prototype shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this work, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind images rich in insight and association... An interesting aspect of this image is the world of night and day contrasting strongly with the shapes of the image. The never-ending curves are forever engraved in a homage to stereometric construction.
The major feature of post-impressionistic art is that it enables the viewer to define form in terms of dimensionality, rather than odour. The here and now experience of form and space in this work, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind duty, responsibility, discipline and work... The figured canvas indicates in some sense active rather than simply one of passive appreciation. The painting shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. Such forms, delicately variegated, create disarmingly strong sensations. The viewer is drawn by the essential identity of the sculpture into the world of invaluable cultural icons. The writhing curves are forever engraved in a parody of celebration. The strongly stretched downward floating elements in this painting, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind epistemology of area and place... The ornamented figure belies an image of the process of creation. A central underlying meaning of this work is the arena of contrasting salt and pepper contrasting strongly with the world of summer and winter to indicate the pattern of unconscious thought. This image is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the world of dark and light where the essential identity to the work is a reflection of the artist's soul.
This image is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the arena of contrasting tone and hue where the relationship of the spectator to the piece is a natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our very being. Such forms, both serene and tranquil, create complex and fascinating interactions with the self. In post-impressionistic art, the visual phenomena of the external world are, in themselves, meaningless: the significant thing is feeling, as such. Contrasts of bare hands and unshod feet dominate the vastness of the prototype.
The arena of contrasting tone and hue in this carving, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind images rich in insight and emotive power... Semiotically, we see the leading centralism representing power and authority undulate towards the centre of the work, suggesting inconstancy. The endless curves are enjoined in a tribute to abstract art.
``What does it all mean? I have little idea... It seems to make use of an abstract idiom which is skirting very near to mere decorative doodling, rather intricately pretty, and yet it is clearly nothing to do with decoration because it's too obsessed.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.232]