Pretentious Yet Pointless
A deep underlying meaning of the drawing is that it is an image of the process of creation.
In neo-impressionism, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless: the important thing is feeling, as such. In post-impressionistic art, the visual phenomena of the manifest world are, in themselves, unimportant: the important thing is feeling, as such. The viewer is drawn by the scale and openness of the doodle into the world of duty, responsibility, discipline and work. Of a sudden, we see the diagonal axis symbolising the inner ego curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability. A particularly contentious aspect of this prototype is the shapes contrasting strongly with the impersonal forms and industrial colours to indicate the eternal contrast of Yin and Yang. Sol Aris has not supplied the individuality of this piece. In this sketch Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between summer and autumn. The artist employs a rectangular grid to define the colours, which thus subsist in a world of their own choosing. In this doodle Sol Aris delineates the relationship between dark and light. Such forms, quietly formal, create a strong interplay of forces. The receding curves are intertwined in a glorious send-up of neo-impressionism. This image is an expression of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the strongly contorted quickly flying articulations where the scale and openness to the piece is an image of the process of creation. The shapes in this painting, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind similarity of the senses of smell and sound...