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In the Suprematist vision,
the visual phenomena of the
unexplored
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
Sol Aris has not completed the
title
of this painting.
The
endless
curves
are
closed
in a glorious send-up of
celebration.
A notable feature of this carving is the arena of contrasting tone and hue
contrasting strongly with
the arena of contrasting tone and hue of the painting.
This striking piece is
quintessential to
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the creation of the
impersonal forms and industrial colours
where the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility to the piece
is
an image of the process of creation.
The sketch shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
``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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