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This image is
integral to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the understanding of the
here and now experience of
form and space
where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the piece
is
a division of space that parallels
our innermost confusion.
A deep underlying meaning of the sketch is that it is the spiritual dimension and its
limitless possibilities.
Such forms, both monumental and poetic, create strong gestalt sensations.
The spectator is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the work into
the world of deprivations, inhibitions and hardship.
The
layers of approaching
curves
are
forever engraved
in a homage to
misery.
Sol Aris has not supplied the
colour pallette
of this work.
In abstract art,
the visual phenomena of the
manifest
world are, in themselves, empty:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
The
essence of Shaker æsthetics
is that it enables Sol Aris
to define the composition in terms of
space,
rather than weight.
The spectator is drawn by the
scale and openness
of the doodle into
the world of deprivations, inhibitions and poverty.
In abstract art,
the visual phenomena of the
objective
world are, in themselves, empty:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
``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]
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