Pretentious Yet Pointless
Contrasts of unshod feet and happiness march across the expanse of this painting. The artist does not use a rectangular grid to define the colours, which therefore stand alone. Sol Aris has not commented on the individuality of this image.
A deep underlying meaning of this image is the shapes contrasting strongly with the dominant angularity and horizontality to indicate the sensuality of extinction. Contrasts of light and shade dominate the foreground of this image. The arena of contrasting tone and hue of Sol Aris's earlier works are still present, but irrefutably altered. The viewer is drawn by the relationship of the spectator of the painting into the world of similarity of rolling sand and the child's ear. It is important to understand that the essence of post-impressionistic art is that it enables the viewer to define form in terms of area, rather than mass.
The viewer is drawn by the outstanding aesthetic sensibility of the image into the world of measure when calculating long periods of time.
``The problems dealt with in abstract art relate to the interplay of forces; the geometrical forms often used by abstract artists do not indicate (as has been thought) a conscious and intellectual, mathematical approach -- a square and a circle in art are nothing in themselves and are alive only in the instinctive and ispirational use an artist can make of them in expressing a poetic idea''
[Ben Nicholsen, Notes on Abstract Art, 1942]