Pretentious Yet Pointless
Such forms, intensely modulated, create a strong interplay of forces. The endless curves are enjoined in a parody of misery. The spectator is drawn by the relationship of the spectator of the work into the world of similarity of dark and light. The artist uses a limited canvas to shape the colours, which can by this means stand alone. This striking piece is an expression of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the arena of contrasting tone and hue where the essential identity to the painting is a division of space that parallels the divisions and interstices of the mind.
In post-impressionistic art, the visual phenomena of the unexplored world are, in themselves, unimportant: the important thing is feeling, as such.
``This art, facing forwards and inwards, is of images of expectation and spiritual progress that are freighted with no historical context at all and which owelittle to the appearance of observed reality''
[Brian Keeble on Cecil Collins, Temeno 11,, London 1990]