Pretentious Yet Pointless
In abstract art, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless: the important thing is feeling, as such. The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this piece, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind slender sinuous curves...
A particularly contentious aspect of the drawing is that it is a division of space that parallels our innermost confusion. Such forms, intensely variegated, create strong gestalt sensations. This striking piece is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the world of the senses of smell and taste where the scale and openness to the piece is a reflection of the artist's soul. It is useful to note that the idea behind constructive colour theory is that it enables the viewer to define the composition in terms of area, rather than representational versimilitude. Unexpectedly, we see the diagonal axis symbolising strength curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability.
``Paradoxically, this work, which has such an assertive and fascinating physical presence, simultaneously undermines its physical reality by the way in which it reflects, and thus elides or blends with, its surroundings.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.262]