Pretentious Yet Pointless
Sol Aris has not described the price of this work. Of a sudden, we see the diagonal axis symbolising the inner ego undulate towards the centre of the piece, suggesting inconstancy. In surrealism, the visual phenomena of the physical world are, in themselves, meaningless: the significant thing is feeling, as such. An important part of this sketch is the impersonal forms and industrial colours contrasting strongly with the emphatically factual experience of salt and pepper to indicate the eternal dimension and its endless possibilities.
``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]