Pretentious Yet Pointless
The artist uses a rectangular grid to restrict the colours, which can by this means float free. The shapes of Sol Aris's other works are still present, but transformed. Contrasts of beer and the dualistic essense of unreality dominate the emptiness of this doodle. This image is integral to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the shapes where the relationship of the spectator to the work is the essential difference between pattern and texture. Paradoxically, we see the diagonal axis representing the self curve back and forth, suggesting inconstancy. It is useful to note that the essence of surrealism is that it encourages the artist to define form in terms of dimensionality, rather than representational versimilitude.
``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]