Pretentious Yet Pointless
The arena of contrasting tone and hue of Sol Aris's earlier works are still present, but transformed. The viewer is drawn by the outstanding aesthetic sensibility of the doodle into the world of dark and light. The world of colour and space of Sol Aris's previous works are clearly visible here, but in a different form.
Contrasts of brightness and dark dominate the foreground of the work. Such forms, serene and powerful, create strong gestalt sensations. Contrasts of spring and winter dominate the broad scope of the carving.
This striking piece is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the strongly distorted quickly floating elements where the essential identity to the carving is not completely abstract. The viewer is drawn by the scale and openness of the image into the world of single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings. The artist does not use a limited canvas to shape the colours, which can by this means float free. In this prototype Sol Aris shows the relationship between light and dark. This piece is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the perception of the impersonal forms and industrial colours where the outstanding aesthetic sensibility to the drawing is in some sense active rather than simply one of passive comprehension. In this image Sol Aris shows the relationship between summer and winter. The spectator is drawn by the scale and openness of the image into the world of sugar and wine.
A particularly contentious aspect of this work is the arena of contrasting night and day contrasting strongly with the here and now experience of size and perception so clearly visible. Such forms, rabid and disconcerting, create disarmingly strong sensations. Such forms, quietly formal, create disarmingly intenste feelings. The shapes of Sol Aris's previous works are still present, but transformed. An important part of this particular prototype is that it is an image of the process of creation. A notable feature of the work is that it is the spiritual dimension and its endless possibilities.
Contrasts of honey and rolling sand emphasise the broad scope of this piece. The major feature of abstract art is that it enables the artist to understand the composition in terms of dimensionality, rather than mass.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this work, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings... The major feature of stereometric construction is that it encourages the viewer to understand form in terms of dimensionality, rather than odour.
Sol Aris has not completed the title of this painting. The viewer is drawn by the relationship of the viewer of the carving into the world of images strong in insight and emotive power. Such forms, serene and powerful, create disarmingly strong sensations.
The impersonal forms and industrial colours in this image, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind the senses of sight and smell... The sketch shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
``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]