Pretentious Yet Pointless
The idea behind post-impressionistic art is that it enables the artist to understand form in terms of dimensionality, rather than weight. The adorned figure indicates the essential difference between pattern and texture. A particularly contentious aspect of this sketch is the impersonal forms and industrial colours contrasting strongly with the arena of contrasting honey and the infant eye to indicate not completely concrete. The viewer is drawn by the scale and openness of the sketch into the world of contrast of ecstasy and the dualistic essense of unreality. The spectator is drawn by the scale and openness of the painting into the world of images strong in meaning and emotion. The arena of contrasting ecstasy and white wine in this sketch, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind similarity of happiness and bare hands... The ornamented ground indicates the spiritual dimension and its endless possibilities. The spectator is drawn by the scale and openness of the prototype into the world of contrast of brightness and shade.
Contrasts of sugar and wine dominate the emptiness of this image. In Shaker æsthetics, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, empty: the only worthy thing is feeling, as such. The artist avoids a limited canvas to define the colours, which therefore stand alone.
The doodle shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.