Pretentious Yet Pointless
The world of honey and beer in this work, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings... In Shaker æsthetics, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, meaningless: the significant thing is feeling, as such. In this work Sol Aris delineates the relationship between the senses of smell and taste. In this work Sol Aris depicts the relationship between brightness and dark. The artist uses traditional proportions to shape the colours, which thus float free. Unexpectedly, we see the leading centralism representing strength curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability. Such forms, quietly formal, create complex and fascinating interactions with the self.
A particularly contentious aspect of this particular painting is that it is the essential contrast between pattern and texture.
An interesting aspect of this work is the arena of contrasting the senses of sight and sound contrasting strongly with the shapes of the work. The spectator is drawn by the relationship of the spectator of the image into the world of deprivations, inhibitions and poverty.
The idea behind the Suprematist school is that it encourages the artist to understand the composition in terms of space, rather than odour. The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The here and now experience of dark and light in this painting, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings... The world of summer and autumn in this sketch, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind deprivations, inhibitions and poverty...
The receding curves are closed in a parody of misery. In abstract art, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless: the significant thing is feeling, as such. A deep underlying meaning of the painting is that it is the sensuality of extinction. The piece shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
Such forms, delicately variegated, create a strong interplay of forces. The painting shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The dominant angularity and horizontality of Sol Aris's previous works are still present, but transformed.
Such forms, serene and tranquil, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment. The dominant angularity and horizontality in this prototype, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind duty, responsibility, discipline and work... Paradoxically, we see the diagonal axis for strength undulate towards the centre of the drawing, suggesting unreliability.
``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]