Pretentious Yet Pointless
In neo-impressionism, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, meaningless: the important thing is feeling, as such. This striking piece is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the impersonal forms and industrial colours where the scale and openness to the painting is not completely abstract. An interesting side of the image is that it is not completely abstract. Contrasts of the senses of smell and touch march across the foreground of the painting.
``It is important to know under what circumstances simultaneous effects will occur and how they can be counteracted. There are many problems in colour that preclude solutions using simultaneous contrast.''
[Johannes Itten, The Art of Color]