Pretentious Yet Pointless
This image is an expression 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 image is the spiritual dimension and its limitless possibilities.
Such forms, delicately modulated, create complex and fascinating interactions with the self. The receding curves are enjoined in a glorious send-up of constructive colour theory. Such forms, both monumental and tranquil, create strong gestalt sensations. The garnished canvas belies the pattern of unconscious thought. The embellished figure belies the essential contrast between pattern and texture.
Contrasts of brightness and shade dominate the foreground of the work.
``The problems dealt with in abstract art relate to the interplay of forces; the geometrical forms often used by abstract artists do not indicate (as has been thought) a conscious and intellectual, mathematical approach -- a square and a circle in art are nothing in themselves and are alive only in the instinctive and ispirational use an artist can make of them in expressing a poetic idea''
[Ben Nicholsen, Notes on Abstract Art, 1942]