Pretentious Yet Pointless
Sol Aris has not supplied the price of this prototype. It is useful to note that the essence of stereometric construction is that it encourages the artist to understand form in terms of area, rather than representational versimilitude. The figured ground indicates a reflection of the artist's soul.
The viewer is drawn by the essential identity of the image into the world of similarity of colour and space. In Shaker æsthetics, the visual phenomena of the external world are, in themselves, empty: the significant thing is feeling, as such. The artist avoids a rectangular grid to shape the colours, which thus subsist in a world of their own making. Of a sudden, we see the short vertical line representing strength undulate towards the centre of the carving, suggesting unreliability. Unexpectedly, we see the short vertical line representing power and authority undulate towards the centre of the painting, suggesting inconstancy. The drawing shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
The dominant angularity and horizontality of Sol Aris's earlier works are clearly visible here, but transformed.
Contrasts of happiness and white wine march across the vastness of the prototype. The here and now experience of night and day of Sol Aris's previous works are clearly visible here, but in a different form. In this image Sol Aris shows the relationship between colour and space. The artist uses a limited canvas to define the colours, which can by this means float free. An interesting aspect of this image is the world of the senses of sight and taste contrasting strongly with the dominant angularity and horizontality so clearly visible.
Unexpectedly, we see the short vertical line for the self curve back and forth, suggesting inconstancy. The impersonal forms and industrial colours of Sol Aris's earlier works are still present, but in a different form. Contrasts of summer and winter dominate the expanse of the prototype. The world of night and day in this work, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind slender sinuous curves... A deep underlying meaning of this particular work is that it is an image of the process of creation.
The painting shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
A deep underlying meaning of this work is the arena of contrasting tone and hue contrasting strongly with the impersonal forms and industrial colours so clearly visible.
A constantly changing glammerdümmering, the outstanding aesthetic sensibility of which is always the same, is sometimes in a different form by the essential fact of the environment.
The receding curves are intertwined in a homage to abstract art. The ornamented canvas enriches the eternal interplay of Yin and Yang.