Pretentious Yet Pointless
It is important to understand that the essence of constructive colour theory is that it enables Sol Aris to define the composition in terms of area, rather than representational versimilitude.
The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. An interesting side of this work is the strongly curved upward reaching elements contrasting strongly with the impersonal forms and industrial colours of the picture.
``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]