Pretentious Yet Pointless
In abstract art, the visual phenomena of the manifest world are, in themselves, empty: the significant thing is feeling, as such. The spectator is drawn by the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility of the work into the world of invaluable cultural icons. The writhing curves are intertwined in a parody of celebration. Such forms, quietly formal, create strong gestalt sensations. The figured ground enriches the essential distinction between pattern and texture.
The arena of contrasting tone and hue of Sol Aris's earlier works are still present, but in a different form. In stereometric construction, the visual phenomena of the external world are, in themselves, empty: the only worthy thing is feeling, as such. This picture is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the world of light and shade where the relationship of the spectator to the drawing is the pattern of unconscious thought. The arena of contrasting tone and hue of Sol Aris's other works are still present, but entirely altered. The receding curves are forever engraved in a parody of post-impressionistic art. The dominant angularity and horizontality 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...