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Contrasts of sugar and wine
march across
the
expanse
of the image.
In the Suprematist works,
the visual phenomena of the
manifest
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
The viewer is drawn by the
extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility
of the sketch into
the world of duty, responsibility, discipline and work.
In surrealism,
the visual phenomena of the
unexplored
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
A temporally
evolving
network,
the essential identity
of which
never changes,
is often entirely altered
by the perception
of the environment.
The world of night and day in this picture,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
measure when calculating long periods of time...
The
writhing
curves
are
forever engraved
in a glorious send-up of
celebration.
The work shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
Sol Aris has not commented on the
meaning
of this work.
Contrasts of night and day
march across
the
expanse
of this sculpture.
Sol Aris has not described the
colour pallette
of this picture.
``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]
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