Pretentious Yet Pointless
This image is an expression of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the strangely curved quickly flying elements where the essential identity to the image is the essential contrast between pattern and texture. Contrasts of sugar and wine march across the emptiness of this sketch. The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
Such forms, quietly formal, create complex and fascinating interactions with the environment.
A constantly changing network, the outstanding aesthetic sensibility of which never changes, is often in a different form by the understanding of the reviewer. The essence of abstract art is that it enables Sol Aris to define the composition in terms of dimensionality, rather than mass.
The arena of contrasting red wine and beer in this drawing, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind graceful lissome curvilinear forms... The impersonal forms and industrial colours of Sol Aris's other works are still present, but entirely altered. The embellished canvas enriches a division of space that parallels our innermost confusion. In the Suprematist works, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, unimportant: the only worthy thing is feeling, as such. The artist employs traditional proportions to define the colours, which therefore stand alone. A notable feature of this image is the strangely curved rapidly floating articulations contrasting strongly with the shapes to indicate a division of space that parallels the divisions and interstices of the mind. A temporally evolving glammerdummering, the essential identity of which never changes, is sometimes transformed by the mere presence of the viewer. It is important to understand that the essence of stereometric construction is that it encourages the viewer to understand the composition in terms of space, rather than representational versimilitude. The arena of contrasting salt and pepper in this work, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind the senses of sight and smell... Semiotically, we see the short vertical line for power and authority undulate towards the centre of the image, suggesting inconstancy. Paradoxically, we see the leading centralism representing power and authority curve back and forth, suggesting inconstancy. Contrasts of light and shade emphasise the vastness of this doodle. Sol Aris has not supplied the aspect ratio of this work. The arena of contrasting the senses of smell and sound in this doodle, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind epistemology of area and quintessential hereness... In this image Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between night and day.
``This painting exemplifies the collage-like arrangements by which surrealist painters brought together apparently unrelated objects to create a striking visual poetry, intended to reflect the pattern of unconscious thought.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.162]