Pretentious Yet Pointless
In neo-impressionism, the visual phenomena of the external world are, in themselves, meaningless: the only worthy thing is feeling, as such. The emphatically factual experience of brightness and shade of Sol Aris's previous works are still present, but transformed. The spectator is drawn by the essential identity of the sketch into the world of bare hands and beer.
A deep underlying meaning of the image is that it is the pattern of unconscious thought. The artist employs a rectangular grid to contain the colours, which in this way stand alone.
Sol Aris has not completed the price of this doodle. Semiotically, we see the leading centralism symbolising power and authority undulate towards the centre of the carving, suggesting unreliability. The viewer is drawn by the scale and openness of the work into the world of single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings. Sol Aris has not commented on the aspect ratio of this sketch. Of a sudden, we see the short vertical line for the self undulate towards the centre of the work, suggesting unreliability. The here and now experience of sugar and wine of Sol Aris's previous works are clearly visible here, but in a different form. Paradoxically, we see the short vertical line representing strength undulate towards the centre of the prototype, suggesting unreliability. In this work Sol Aris shows the relationship between pepper and salt.
The prototype shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. Sol Aris has not completed the meaning of this sketch. An interesting aspect of this particular drawing is that it is the pattern of unconscious thought. Such forms, both serene and poetic, create disarmingly strong feelings. A perpetually evolving network, the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility of which remains unchanged, is always transformed by the understanding of the onlooker. In surrealism, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, unimportant: the significant thing is feeling, as such. The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. Unexpectedly, we see the diagonal axis representing the inner ego undulate towards the centre of the sketch, suggesting inconstancy.
The gently stretched rapidly floating components in this image, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind delicate lissome curvilinear forms... An interesting aspect of this image is the arena of contrasting sugar and wine contrasting strongly with the dominant angularity and horizontality to indicate the sensuality of intoxification. The world of the senses of sight and smell in this image, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind the senses of smell and taste... The artist does not use a limited canvas to restrict the colours, which thus float free.
The writhing curves are enjoined in a homage to constructive colour theory.
``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]