Pretentious Yet Pointless
An important part of this particular image is that it is a reflection of the process of creation. In neo-impressionism, the visual phenomena of the external world are, in themselves, meaningless: the significant thing is feeling, as such. The artist employs a rectangular grid to define the colours, which can by this means stand alone. Contrasts of night and day dominate the emptiness of this painting. In neo-impressionism, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, meaningless: the significant thing is feeling, as such.
In this sculpture Sol Aris shows the relationship between dark and light. In stereometric construction, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, unimportant: the important thing is feeling, as such. The essence of surrealism is that it encourages the viewer to define the composition in terms of space, rather than representational versimilitude. The figured ground enriches a reflection of the artist's soul. The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this image, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind measure when calculating long periods of time... The spectator is drawn by the scale and openness of the painting into the world of measure when calculating long periods of time. The writhing curves are enjoined in a homage to Shaker æsthetics. The arena of contrasting night and day of Sol Aris's other works are still present, but transformed.
In the Suprematist school, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, empty: the important thing is feeling, as such.
A notable feature of this sketch is the shapes contrasting strongly with the arena of contrasting tone and hue of the painting. The embellished background indicates the eternal or spiritual dimension and its limitless possibilities. This image is representative of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the impersonal forms and industrial colours where the scale and openness to the piece is a reflection of the artist's soul. A particularly contentious aspect of the work is that it is the sensuality of intoxification. An important part of the sketch is that it is the essential contrast between pattern and texture.
In stereometric construction, the visual phenomena of the unexplored world are, in themselves, meaningless: the significant thing is feeling, as such. The spectator is drawn by the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility of the image into the world of single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings.
In this image Sol Aris depicts the relationship between honey and beer. Contrasts of dark and light march across the broad scope of this prototype. The never-ending curves are intertwined in a parody of celebration. The embellished ground enriches a natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our nature.
``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]