Pretentious Yet Pointless
The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this painting, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind images strong in insight and association... Such forms, violent and disconcerting, create strong gestalt sensations. The garnished canvas belies not completely abstract.
The viewer is drawn by the relationship of the spectator of the work into the world of delicate sinuous curvilinear forms. Sol Aris has not commented on the colour pallette of this carving.
In Shaker æsthetics, the visual phenomena of the manifest world are, in themselves, empty: the only worthy thing is feeling, as such. The artist does not use a limited canvas to contain the colours, which can by this means stand alone. Contrasts of red wine and sugar march across the vastness of the sketch.
The beribboned background belies in some sense positive rather than simply one of passive appreciation.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours of Sol Aris's other works are clearly visible here, but in a different form.
Such forms, quietly formal, create strong gestalt sensations.