Pretentious Yet Pointless
This striking piece is an expression of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the arena of contrasting tone and hue where the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility to the piece is a primary sense which belongs to the basic senses of our nature. Unexpectedly, we see the short vertical line representing the inner ego curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability. Contrasts of salt and pepper march across the emptiness of the prototype. The shapes in this picture, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind contrast of light and dark... The ornamented ground enriches a reflection of the artist's soul.
A constantly changing network, the essential identity of which never changes, is always transformed by the understanding of the viewer. A particularly contentious aspect of this particular work is that it is a primary natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our very being.
Sol Aris has not supplied the title of this work. It is important to understand that the essence of neo-impressionism is that it encourages Sol Aris to understand the composition in terms of area, rather than mass. Such forms, delicately modulated, create disarmingly strong shivers of emotion.
``This painting exemplifies the collage-like arrangements by which surrealist painters brought together apparently unrelated objects to create a striking visual poetry, intended to reflect the pattern of unconscious thought.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.162]