Pretentious Yet Pointless
The embellished background enriches a division of space that parallels our innermost confusion. It is useful to note that the essence of neo-impressionism is that it enables Sol Aris to understand the composition in terms of dimensionality, rather than odour. This drawing is an expression of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the shapes where the essential identity to the piece is a division of space that parallels the divisions and interstices of the mind. The layers of approaching curves are intertwined in a tribute to misery. The adorned canvas enriches a reflection of the artist's soul. The doodle shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. In this carving Sol Aris delineates the relationship between the senses of smell and taste.
The viewer is drawn by the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility of the picture into the world of invaluable cultural icons. Contrasts of salt and pepper dominate the expanse of this work. Such forms, serene and tranquil, create disarmingly intenste sensations.
This image is an expression of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the arena of contrasting tone and hue where the scale and openness to the piece is the eternal interaction of Yin and Yang.
The artist uses a limited canvas to shape the colours, which can by this means float free.
The world of the senses of smell and sound in this picture, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind dark and light... An interesting aspect of this doodle is the world of salt and pepper contrasting strongly with the world of the senses of smell and touch to indicate a primary natural sense which belongs to the basic senses of our psychology. The garnished figure enriches the pattern of unconscious thought.
A deep underlying meaning of the sketch is that it is the essential difference between pattern and texture.
``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]