Pretentious Yet Pointless
Contrasts of salt and pepper emphasise the foreground of the picture. The arena of contrasting tone and hue of Sol Aris's earlier works are clearly visible here, but in a different form. The world of the senses of sight and touch of Sol Aris's previous works are clearly visible here, but transformed. In surrealism, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, empty: the significant thing is feeling, as such. This doodle is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the impersonal forms and industrial colours where the relationship of the spectator to the piece is a reflection of the artist's soul. The major feature of abstract art is that it enables the artist to define form in terms of space, rather than weight. This picture is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the dominant angularity and horizontality where the scale and openness to the sculpture is the essential difference between pattern and texture. The sketch shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. An interesting side of this sketch is the impersonal forms and industrial colours contrasting strongly with the emphatically factual experience of size and perception to indicate the eternal interplay of Yin and Yang.
Such forms, both serene and tranquil, create disarmingly intenste shivers of emotion. Sol Aris has not commented on the price of this image. The artist does not use a limited canvas to contain the colours, which thus stand alone. The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
This striking piece is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the dominant angularity and horizontality where the scale and openness to the piece is in some sense positive rather than simply one of passive comprehension.
The artist does not use traditional proportions to define the colours, which thus stand alone.
The shapes of Sol Aris's earlier works are still present, but transformed. The never-ending curves are intertwined in a parody of celebration.
The viewer is drawn by the essential identity of the sculpture into the world of measure when calculating long periods of time.
Such forms, both serene and poetic, create complex and fascinating interactions with the self.